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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    the face of the (lump as feparate fores, till the twelfth day. When O’Halleran talked this bold uncivil language about confidence and veracity, he little thought that he iliould live to fee the doctrine of adhefion followed by a univerfal practice of laying down the flap; or the mod ordinary furgeon procuring fometimes a perfed adhefion on the third day. But furgery has improved gradually within thefe twenty years. Obfervations have been carefully made, and publifhed early in pamphlets or journals. Doctrine and practice have gone hand in hand. The particularpraclice of procuring adhefion be- longs to no one perfon; but was pafling continually from hand to hand, from one friend to another, the common doctrine and difcourfe of the day. It was gradually ex- tending in its application, and growing ftrong,like eve- ry practical dodrinc, by flow degrees. It was applied firft to amputation ; then to trepan ; then to the extir- pation of fcirrhous mammae; then to all great opera- tions; then to all recent wounds. If we are more par- ticularly indebted to any one man, it is to Allanfon ; who continuing through all his practice to make neat operations, and careful notes, has given us the refult, in a form and language which make his writings, not- withftanding the nature of his fubjed, as pleafant al- moftas they are profitable to read. And yet, (as O’Hal- leran fays on another occafion, p. 222.) <lWe muft not wonder to find fome people, fcarcely known beyond their own fphere of action, modeftly whifpering their claim to this honour.” A quotation, which in its fenfe and true meaning, may be fairly applied to the 2