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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![\ / [ 39 ] There are fome who have carried their precipitation, in this refpedt, to fuch a length, as to cut off limbs upon the fpot, that have been confiderably bruifed, before they tried any other remedy: A piece of cruelty I can¬ not in any fhape approve of *. >» - * i • B _ SECT. XX. I SHALL treat at prefent of large contufions of the limbs, efpecially of thofe where the flefhy parts, as well as the bones, are extremely bruifed and jflhattered, as commonly happens, when the hand, the foot, the elbow, the leg, arm or thigh, have been bruifed by a large done, a beam of wood, a cart-wheel, a fcrew, a prefs, &c. In fuch cafes, fhall the patient get fooner well by amputating or not amputating this fhattered limb ? ' * This pra<SHce has alfo been condemned by others. See the colle£Hon of pieces which put in for the prize conferred by the royal academy of furgery T. 3. p. 490. It is there obferved that every amputation per¬ formed immediately after the hurt, is genet ally dange¬ rous in its confequences. I know that a foldier, who had his arm cut off in the field of battle, after the affair of Prague, died the third or fourth day after the operation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
