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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![[ 89 ] A Soldier of Sybourg’s regiment of foot, named Mieke, feventy years of age, received near MiefTen in 1759, a mufket fhot which fhattered the fhoulder bone two fingers breadth below the articulation ; a fplinter was taken out five inches long; he was neverthelefs perfectly cured at the end of nine months, and left Wittemberg to go to the hofpital of Invalids at Berlin. v. M. de Stabenwol, captain lieutenant of Grabow’s regiment of foot, at the battle of Kunnerfdorf, received a mufket fhot which fhattered -the head of the os humeri clofe to Its articulation with the fcapula ; he was per? feffiy cured in the fpace of eight months, £nd went from Stettin to Berlin •f*. M. de f I have feen an officer, a captain in the French fer- Vice, who received a mufket fhot, with the muzzle of the piece clofe to the part; the ball fhattered the hu¬ meral bone near its head, clofe to the articulation : had the wound been fomewhat lower, that is lefs dangerous, his arm would have been taken off; the impoffibility, or the difficulty of the operation prevented it; he fuffered all the inconveniencies that a wound can occafion, for a confiderable time feveral fplinters were extracted, at length at the end of five months he was cured. This cafe appears to me of confequence, becaufe here we fee a very bad wound of that kind for which amputation js performed every day, and the danger aggravated by the nature of the part where it is infii&ed, where they do not amputate, becaufe it cannot be done, yet it was cured. X](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
