Volume 1

The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott / [Percivall Pott].

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788
Date:
1771-1775
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed, and the opportunities which fuch treatment gives for nature to exert thofe powers'with which the Almigh¬ ty Author has furnifhed her, do ere - dit to the modern practitioners: the double incifion in amputations; the prefent method of removing cance¬ rous breads, and eneyfted tumors ; the lateral operation for the done in the bladder ; the ufe of the cutting gorget; amputation in the joint of the fhoulder ; the prefent method oi letting: out ail the water at once O from an afeites; the improvements in the treatment of the fiftula lachry- malis; the cure of the vari and valgi, with many others which might be named ; in fhort, the fyperior neat- nefs, eafe, and expedition of the pre¬ fent furgery, when compared to the * antient, are certain and undoubted improvements made by the modern praCti-