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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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    tion, it becomes one Argument amongft others, why the Doctrine I have laid down fhould take place in Mortifications from external as well as internal Caufes. But what feems to be of much greater Importance in this Confideralion, than any of the Reafons I have already alledgcd, is the ill Rate of Health that the Patient labours under whiift a Gangrene is fpreading, bp it of one kind or other; for at this time the Blood is frequently fo thin, 2s to lofe even its florid Appearance, and it is not unufual for fatal Hemorrhages to fucceed, in Confequence of this thinnefs, not from the great Veflels, but from an Infinity of fmall ones in every part of the Stump. The mere danger of a He¬ morrhage is then another Objection ; but tho’ this fhould be efcaped, yet Nature will gene¬ rally fink under fo violent an Operation, where the Blood is deprived of its Balfamick Quali¬ ties, and the Strength of the Patient is lo much exhaufled. On thefe accounts, the Propriety of deferring the Amputation will be evident, not only till the Mortification is ftopt, but till the Separation is pretty far advanced; for by this Meafure, under a proper Treat¬ ment, the Blood will recover a healthy State and Confidence, and the Patient will be better enabled