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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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    us to cut it off. In the fubfequent Lines he goes on to inform us, what are the different Circumftances which indicate the ufe of thefe feveral Methods. • c I t appears then from the foregoing ope- cimen, that though they all acknowledge the fuperior Efficacy of the Needle, there are fome who ftill adopt it under certain Limitations.. The greater Part maintain avowedly the original Opinions, while others feem awed by them, where they do not con- fefs their Fears. Nothing would therefore tend more to the Perfection of Surgery, than the Removal of thefe Apprehenfions; becaufe there is no Branch of the Bufinefs fo com¬ mon as this, at leaft where the Health and Life of the Patient depend fo much on one particular manner of Treatment, in preference to all others. It was formerly found by Expeiience, that if the Efcbar fell off from a large Veffel in a few Days after the ufe of the aCtual Cautery, the Hemorrhage generally returned ; a Circutnftance admitted to be very com¬ mon. Now, if the a&ual Cautery was at¬ tended with this Confequence, how much more liable to the fame Inconvenience muff