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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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    When we find tbefe Prejudices fo eagerly embraced by the moft eminent Practitioners of the fucceeding times, and amongft others by Fabrics ab Aquapendente, and 8 Hildanus, whofe Writings were efteemed almolt as* Oracles during the laft Century, it is not wonderful the Eftablilhment of this Method fhould be referved for our Days. I c a n N o t find in all the Works of 9 Aquapendente, that he ever ufed a Needle • and though he fpeaks of the Ligature and Forceps, it is but rarely that he applies it j nay, he argues againft the ufe of them in the following Quotation from Galen. (Lib. 14. Meth.) Quod Ji laqueis tentes arteries ligare fympatheia oboriuntur, id ejl, affeaiones per Confenfum. t A n D that the Cautery was his Remedy againftan Effufion of Blood, we learn, amonoft other Proofs, from his manner of amputating a Breaft, which he advifes to be done with a red-hot Knife, or a fliarp Knife made of Horn, or Wood, dipt in Aqua Fortis, by which Ar¬ tifice he fuppofes the Veffels will be cauterifed as the Incifion advances \ 8 Hildanus, Page Srz. 9 Page 86. Hum, Page 803, 804, 813, who advifes the X I Vide alfo Hilda- jame Method.