A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier.

Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.

Date:: 1804

Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$patience, nourishment, and suitable me- dicines. Therefore as long as the patient is able to take supplies proportioned to the discharge, keeps up his general health, and a natural appearance of his counte- nance, and the occasional irregularities which take place in the system, yield to appropriate remedies, not only may am- putation be deferred, but it certainly ought not to be performed; unless it be evident, from the very nature of the mis- chief that is done, that the operation must sooner or later be called for. If indeed this be the case, the patient's strength should not be too far trifled with, or exliausted. A little debility however, previous to the operation, will rather facilitate his recovery. In short, things should have gone just so far, that nature may feel the operation rids her of an incumbrance, from which she could not deliver heyself. Profuse discharges are often kept up \ from the wound by the continuance of ex^$