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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    pvefent occafion, word for word, all but one *. I have been at pains to reprefent this improvement as gradual and blent; as having obtained by general and * Which of thefe words my reader (hall (trike out, I (hall leave to his own honour and good fenfe to determine, after he (hall have read the following quotation; obferving, in the firft place, that Mr. O’Halleran publifhed his book chiefly with the defign of teaching furgeons how to fave (kin ; that Mr. Allanfon publifhed his book to teach furgeons how to put that (kin down fo as to make it adhere ; and that a third author, the only modern furgeon who has claimed the do&rine, is the only modern furgeon who does not underftand its real value. He delivers the following curious hiltory of this doftrine of adhefion : “ As I confider the improvement by which thefe ends “ are effected as one of the mod important in modern pra&ice, I hope « to be cxcufed if I (hortly (late the (hare I have had in the intro- “ Auction of it, before proceeding to deferibe the operation itfelf. “ In the courfe of my education while attending the hoipital here, ** as well as the hofpitals of London and Pans, the inconveniencies << arifmg from the want of attention to the faving of (kin, in different “ chirurgical operations (truck me ftrongly, fo that I was refolved to << take eveiy proper opportunity, in my own practice, of treating this “ point with particular attention. “ Prom the year 1772, when I fettled in bufinefs, I laid it down “ as a maxim not to be deviated from, to fave as much (kin and cel- “ lular fubftance in the removal of tumors, whether cancers, or others, <e when the foundnels of parts admitted of it, as would completely “ cover the fores,” &c. &c. “ After this had been pra&ifed for feveral years, Mr. Allanfon of “ Liverpool, in the year 1779, publifhed forne obfervations upon am- “ putation, in which a method of operating is deferibed,” See. The claiming fo late as the 1772, or rather the 1788, a difeovery which was publifhed by O’Halleran in the 1765, muff excite fome feelings very different from refentment; but any one who claims in the 1788, the doctrine of adhefion, which Allanfon had fo fully ex- plained in the 1779, muff be anfvvered: And the anfwer is plainly
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