Dr. Alexander B. Mott's surgical operations : series no. 1.
- Mott, Alexander B. (Alexander Brown), 1826-1889.
- Date:
- [1857?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Alexander B. Mott's surgical operations : series no. 1. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![AT Bui-n5 REMARKS ON DEFORMITIES ER0M BURNS With a Successful Operation on a Formidable Case. W BY ALEXANDER B. MOTT, M.D., Surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital, and the Jew's Hospital, New York, &fc, &fc. [From the American Medical Monthly for August, 1856.] Burns have long been known to produce some of the most frightful disfigurements that occur in Surgery. Pott, Ambrose Pare, and other early surgeons, record the difficulties that occurred from this source in their days ; Roux and Sir Astley Cooper allude to them in more recent times. Mr. Cleghorn, of Edinburgh, a celebrated Scotch brewer, who, in consequence of the frequency of such accidents among his workmen, treated scalds with an ability not inferior to any of the Faculty, as Abernethy himself sarcastically admitted, declared that the contraction arising from the cicatrix was the only calamity beyond his reach ; and every surgeon of experience must, necessarily, have met with them as among the most trouble- some of the difficulties he has to encounter. Many of them have occurred to me, but I do not recollect one more striking than that which the case illustrated in the accompanying plate presents. The patient, a young man named Patrick Lavel, aged twenty-three, applied to me in the latter part of the month uf December, 1850, for the purpose of obtaining relief from the effects of a burn which he had sus- tained in his youth. A glance at the plate will explain his condition. In early life he had been subject to one of the fre- quent accidents arising from fire, and, as usual in such cases, contraction had subsequently ensued to a most distressing- extent. A cicatrix occupied the entire front part of the neck](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21142774_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
