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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT. VII. On the Extirpation of Scirrhous Tonsils. H E Extirpation of Scirrhous Tonfls by A Ligature, teems to be a Practice, as yet almoft entirely confined to England, though for no other reafon, as I imagine, but becaufc •it generally requires feme time for the Propa¬ gation of an Improvement. It is acknow¬ ledged on all hands, that the Application of Efcharotics is a tedious, painful, and fome- times an ineffectual Method of Cure : It is like wife granted, that the Hcemorrhage which follows upon the Excifion of Scirrhous \TonfiU, is greatly to be feared 5 but {till the tying them is neglected. B y what I can learn, the other two Me¬ thods, for the Reafons I have afligned, are feldom praCtifed \ and therefore thole People who are unfortunately afflicted with this Ma* lady, have no other Refource than in Pallia* tives, which rarely produce much Benefit, It is true, the Diforder is not very common, but when an egfy and a certain Remedy is once difeovered for any Difeafe, however uncommon