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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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    274- Matter of Fad ; bat I {hall here obferve, that in the Practice of Phyfick and Surgery, it is often exceedingly difficult to afcertain a Fad. Prejudice, or want of Abilities, fometitnes mifleads us in our Judgment, where there is evidently a right and a wrong; but, in certain Cafes, to diftinguifh how far the Remedy, and how far Nature operate, is probably above our Difcernment: In Gangrenes particularly, there is frequently fuch a Complication of unknown Circumftances, as cannot but tend to deceive an unwary Obferver. Mortifica¬ tions a riling from mere Cold, Compreffion, or StriShire, generally ceafe upon removing the Caufe, and are therefore' feldom proper Cafes for proving the Power of Bark : How¬ ever, there are two kinds of Gangrene, where Internals have a fairer Trial; thefe are, a {spreading Gangrene from an internal Caufe, and a fpreading Gangrene from violent exter¬ nal Accidents, fuch as Gun-fhot Vv ounds, compound Fradures, &c. Yet even here we cannot judge of their Effed with abfolute Certainty ; for fometimes a Mortification from internal Caufes is a kind oi critical .-Lulordei > There feems to be a certain Portion of the Body deflined to periih, and no more ; of this we have an Infinity of Examples brought into