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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a Pair of ScifTars, which will facilitate the Digeftion of the Wound. I will not take upon me without Experience, to recommend this Method of Cure very ftrongly; but if in the imperfedl Manner it was formerly prac- tifed, they found fome Succefs, which is not denied, I fuppofe with the Advantages here propofed, it would be much more certain ; though to fpeak my Opinion on this Subject, I would never perfuade any Patients to undergo an Operation for a Bubonocele, whilft in this moveable State, but rather to acquiefce under the Relief procured by a Trufs: However, as fome People are fo uneafy, that they will ex- pofe themfelves to any Meafure in this Circum- ftance, for the hopes of a radical Cure, I fhould prefer, upon fuch an Emergency, the Operation here propofed to the Methods now employed. It mull: in its Nature be more effectual than the Cauftic, and I think lefs dangerous than the common Operation for the Bubonocele, and belides, it will be much lefs liable to a Re- lapfe, which the ufual Operation for the Bu¬ bonocele is very fubjedt to. Perhaps it may be objected, that there is great danger of wound¬ ing or fewing up the Spermatic Veffels; but as they run along the back Part of the Procefs, both the one and the other will be eafily avoided.
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