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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![[ loo ] f SECT. XLL I HAVE now finifhed what I had moft material to fay, againft the practice which ftill prevails, of too precipitately taking off the limbs when they arecontufed or fhattered.. Are my reafons well-founded, Or does the method I propofe deferve to be adopted ? This I leave to be determined by the judi¬ cious reader; for my own part, I fhall ne¬ ver experience any fenfation more agreeable, than the reColledion of having faved the lives and preferved the limbs of fo many un¬ fortunate men in our hofpitals, whofe wounds were of the kind for which practitioners hi¬ therto have had recourfe to amputation; and it were to be wifhed, that fo many cures happily effected, might reprefs that kind of folly, by which, in fome countries, furgeons are excited, and even encour¬ aged by public rewards, to perform fre¬ quent amputations. Another advantage will accrue from this publication, which is, th^t all thofe who judged unfavourably of the furgeons of our hofpitals, on hearing they never employed amputation, will, I hope, lay afide their prejudices on this fcore, and may even derive benefit from our example* FINIS.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
