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 fil'd dangers of gangrene, has lain for fix weeks, or two months, under profufe fuppurations or exfo- liating bones; if, while you are trying to fupport him with bark and wine, with very poor hopes of ac- complifhing a cure, he Ihould plainly be finking un- der the hectic fever, then again amputation may be propofed ; but it is, on one hand, very diftrefiing to throw away all hope, and lofe the advantages which our patient has ftruggled for, through fo much differ- ing and danger;—while, on the other hand, his life, which was at firlt in danger from pain and gangrene, is now a fecond time in danger from colliquative fup- purations and a hectic, which wafies his ftrength;— but this very weaknefs, which has brought him into this condition, is fo far favourable to the fuccefs of the operation, that it may be fairly queftioned, whe- ther this fecond period be not fitter for amputation than the firlt. ythly, With regard to the operation itfelf, I may venture to affirm, that the ill fuccefs of the French and Pruffian furgeons proceeded from operations either done under inaufpicious circumftances, or in themfelves ill performed ; and that, by a prudent choice in point of time, and neatnefs, in the manner of performing the operation,—a particular care in fecur- ing the arteries, and every endeavour to keep your pa- tient clean and warm in an eafy condition, and in general health, you will be fuccefsful, not indeed in the proportions of private pradice, but in proportion to your means and opportunities; and more than this, no man of good fenfe can look for.
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