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.

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    the fingers of a hand, though entirely cut off, may be restored *. ♦ A gentleman, to whom I told Pedie's case lately, expressed his regret that he had not known it sooner; for, said he, our blacksmith, a very clever fellow, a short time ago, struck off three of his fingers, from about the middle. He ran immediately, with the piecesr hanging by small slips of skin, to the surgeon of the village, who out with his scissars, divided the slips of skin, threw the fingers away, and contented himself with dressing the stumps. Now, this gentleman did what almost every other surgeon would have done; but had he known Pedie's case, the blacksmith, a thousand to one, would have had his fingers to -day.