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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![[ 3^ ] It will, perhaps, be objected to me, that I am inconfiftent with myfelf, fince I have juft propofed one method, and actually fol¬ low another; but this obje&ion will vanifh, if it be confidered in the firft place, that if a perfon has been thus judicioufly treated from the beginning, and does not recover, a cure will almoft never be effected, afte£ the cruel expedient of amputation. In the fecond place, that all thofe who are under a neceffity of fubmitting to this dangerous ope¬ ration, on account of their having negle&ed themfelves, or having been unfkilfully treat¬ ed, have no reafon to complain of the art, or of thofe who underftand it, but of their own negligence, or of the ignorance of thofe into whole hands they have had the misfor¬ tune to tall. And in the third place, that in oppofing amputation on the found parts, and in teftifying my abhorrence againft the neediefs pain which accompanies it, 1 do not at all condemn the amputation of what is abfolutely mortified. I have however fufficiently expatiated on this point, which ought to be confi iered be¬ fore the others, as being more general. ’I now proceed to examine the accidents that induce furgeons to amputate in order to pre¬ vent a mortification. ' ' There](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
