Observations on adhesion, with two cases, demonstrative of the powers of nature to reunite parts which have been, by accident, totally separated from the animal kingdom / by William Balfour.

  • Balfour, William, 1780-
Date:
1814
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Credit: Observations on adhesion, with two cases, demonstrative of the powers of nature to reunite parts which have been, by accident, totally separated from the animal kingdom / by William Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    with which adhesion by the first in- tention takes place? It is impossible. Suppose a piece of skin, of such extent, were raised from any part of the body, and allowed to remain, without being connected with any other raw surface, how long, I ask, would that part of its margin, most distant from the attach- ment left to keep up circulation in the part, live ? I am convinced very little, if any blood, would issue from it, except what might be in the vessels at the time of their being divided. If, therefore, the connection left to keep up the circulation of the excised parts, in Taliacotius's operations^ was insufficient for that purpose, these parts must be considered as having been in the same situation as if entirely separat-
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