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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![[66 ] Bat as there can be no neceffity for this operation, but in confequence of the large arteries being wounded, by following the method I {hall point out § XXXV. it will be rendered unneceffary, and difputes con¬ cerning it may be laid afide : For it is very certain, that the mod: dangerous accidents even of this part, may be remedied, like thofe in other parts, by joining to the method of treatment I have already mentioned, the operation I (hall defcribe § XXXV. provid¬ ing it be performed in time, before the pa¬ tient be exhaufted, and almoft dying, from the effeds of the hurt being too long left to itfelf. But the apprehenfion which patients have of the pain which deep incifions into the flefhy parts would occafion, prevents extrading the pieces of bone which . com- prefs or irritate the parts around y as alfo from cutting through the membranes that are overftretchsd, and caufe a conftridion y from giving a vent to impaded matter, and from conveying the medicines to the parts where they ought to be applied. The con¬ fequence of all this is, that the proper re- familiar 5 I make this remark, becaufe, as he is not the only perfon who may allow himfelf to talk in this man¬ ner, a bold pretender to the art, on reading fuch a paf- fage, might undertake an operation as eafy and com¬ mon, which has never yet been performed. Tissot. medies](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
