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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![t* ] mankind, an operation which every one be¬ holds with horror, I cannot, I imagine, more effedually accomplifli my defign, or do a greater fervice, than by demonftrating, that the cafes wherein amputation is' necejfary, are much lefs frequent than has been hitherto fup- pofed, and that it may even be almo/l totally dtfpenfed with. SECT. II. MY firft thoughts on this fubjed arofe from obferving what paffed under my own infpedion in the military hofpitals. In the firft place I remarked, that in a very great number of cafes, where amputa¬ tion was judged neceflary by the phyficians and furgeons of the army, and even by the wounded themfelves, in order to preferve life, it feldom or almoft never anfwered the end. In the fecond place, I faw and had under my immediate care, a great number of pa¬ tients whofe limbs had been carried off by cannon balls, and in fuch a manner too, that all thofe who adhere to, and are afraid to deviate from eftablifhed rules, would have performed a frefh amputation on the remain-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
