A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs / Written in Latin ... Augmented with the notes of Mr. Tissot ... Now first translated into English, by a surgeon.
- Johann Ulrich Bilguer
- Date:
- 1764
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs / Written in Latin ... Augmented with the notes of Mr. Tissot ... Now first translated into English, by a surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ «7 ] In the ordinary method amputation would certainly have been performed, as the fore¬ arm was (battered, and the upper arm which was untouched could admit of the operation, but we faved the arm and made a perfect cure without having recourfe to fuch an expedient, which are fo many evidences that give their teftimony in favour of our method, which we can produce to the partifans of amputation. M. de Safs, colonel commandant of a re¬ giment belonging to the garrifon of Lattorf, and who is at prefent commandant at Brieg, received at the battle fought near Czeflau, a mulket (hot in the leg, which (hivered the two bones into feveral fragments, of which fome of four or five inches in length were extracted. The furgeons thought am¬ putation neceflary, and preffed him to fubmit to it 5 he refufed however and recovered -y al¬ though the limb is bent outwards he can w*ilk and go about his buftnefs with eafe. A foldier of the regiment of Cuirafliers of Gefsler, called Lukrafka, was wounded in the going through the exercife with the re¬ giment, in fuch a manner that the two bones were fra&ured in the middle, with feveral fiffures lengthways. After having laid the fiifures of the bone bare, I fawed through a piece of the tibia about five inches in length, G 4 which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
