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Credit: Ambroise Paré and his times, 1510-1590 / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and tradition ; the very thing that Paracelsus would have loved to burn. But it has an everlasting merit, inasmuch as it drew from Pare his Apologie et Traicte conte7ia7it les Voyages faicts en divers Lieiilx : par A mbroise Pari, de Laval, Conseiller et Premier Chirur- gien dii Roy. He begins with a furious rejoinder to his adversary. Gourmelen had appealed to authority ; Pare takes him to authority, and shows him that the use of the ligature is no new thing. Then comes a long list of cases where he had used it with success after amputa- tion. Finally, the appeal to experience. The whole argument runs thus: (i) It is nothing new to stop a vessel, bleeding in a wound, with the ligature. (2) I am the first surgeon who has ever used the ligature to stop the bleeding of the wounds made by ampu- tations. (3) I have had good results by this method. (4) ]\Iy discovery was made not by sitting in a chair and thinking, but by years of hard practical work in Paris and with the army. From the whole of his life, he takes that great part of it which was spent with the army, and leaves his practice in Paris out of the question. Once started on the story of the wars, he tells it to the end, to a time many years later than the great dis- covery ; not from vanity, but from love of good stories, and vehement determination to force on](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21211255_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
