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The chirurgical works of Percival Pott ... to which are added a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection and occasional notes and observations by Sir James Earle / [Percivall Pott].

Percivall Pott

Date:: 1808

Credit: The chirurgical works of Percival Pott ... to which are added a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection and occasional notes and observations by Sir James Earle / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$= en from External Violence. 1 O8 (those in which the scalp is separated ait de- tached from the parts it ought to cover,) are not only, by the different methods in which they may be treated, frequently capable of being cured with aconsiderable deal more or less ease and ex- »pedition, but prove also sometimes matter of great consequence to the health and well-being of the much in their advice and conduct on this subject. With some it is a practice immediately to remove such portion of the scalp as 1s fairly and perfectly detached from the parts underneath; with othem 35 to attempt its preservation. Each of these opinions can be considered, in a general sense only, not as applicable to every in- dividual case without distinction; and taken in ‘such general consideration, they cannot be both right. It may therefore be woyth while to in- quire, what reasons each party has to aie for its opinion and conduct. | They wha. advise the removal, Sot that when a large portion of the scalp has been per- fectly and totally separated from \the parts, it ought to cover, and that for some considerable space, it will not again coalesce or unite with ‘such parts; and therefore that an attempt to procure such union, by replacing the separated “piece, will only protract the time of cure, by. furnishing a lodgement for matter and sloughs, which matter and sloughs must prevent the thing intended. ‘That in case of large wounds, or of those produced by great force, as we can- &$