Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell.

  • John Bell
Date:
1800
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Credit: Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Many pretended to reftore to the aged, health and ftrength, by withdrawing from their fyftem the effete blood, and filling them up with healthy and youthful blood. In like manner, did Talicotius write his long and not inelegant book, about the refloration of parts of the body which had been loft. And Garengeot had the boldnefs to tell a ftory, about “ a young fellow, a foldier, who, reeling out of a tavern drunk with fome of his companions, got into a quarrel, in which one of them bit off his nofe, threw it into the gutter, and trod it under foot: He gathered his nofe up, flung it into Mr. Gallin’s, an Apothecary’s fhp, ran after the fellow who had done it, and when he returned, Mr. Gallin waftied the nofe at the well, ftuck it with plaf- ters in its place, in two days after, it was firmly united, and Mr. Garengeot, four days after, dreffed the nofe with his own hands.”—Vid. Vol. III. p. 55. And if. we may believe one writer of good abilities, the beft modern ftories of adhefion, (as of a tooth adhering to a cock’s comb), are little better than Talicotian tales, or thkvby Garengeot of the foldier’s nofe *. But even, when this doctrine of adhefion came to be fpoken of in a fenfible and modeft way, and became a queftion of the higheft importance in pradtice, it was very difficultly and flowly received. Thirty years ago, furgeons had no fettled notions, that cut furfaces might be made to adhere : they had * I had neglected to repeat this experiment myfelf. I mentioned here a doubt fuggefted by a modern writer. But my friend Aftley Cooper, has frnce convinced me of the fad.