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 * 8 ] fcf the found parts, by which they throw off whatever is vitiated and noxious; and it is the bufinefs of the furgeon to affift this falutary operation, by removing, with his inftruments, fuch parts as are intirely cor¬ rupted ; but this ought to be done, at leaft; as much as poffible, without caufing any difcharge of blood He muft not, how*- ever, confine his attention to the foft parts only, but muff have an eye like wife to the bones; and, after having examined them carefully, and even made what dilatations may be neceffary for this examination, he muff remove, at each dreffing, whatever is carious, and all the fplinterb that can be ex- traded without violence; after which they may be covered with the balfam for the bones, § X. and the foft parts dreffed, as circumftances may indicate, either with dry * This precept, of which the very reverfe is but too frequently pradiifed, is of very great confequence : It is founded upon this, that a difcharge of blood proves that an incifion has reached the quick; now every fuch incifion produces an inflammation, which retards the fuppuration already begun, and hence we interrupt this operation of nature which we meant to promote, and, as it is the means of preventing a mor¬ tification, whatever interrupts it contributes to the dif- eafe : It cannot, therefore, be too often repeated, that in genera], incifions which caufe a difcharge of blood, ought never to be pradlifed after a fuppuration is be¬ gun. Tissot. ‘ ' lint.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
