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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![[ 8o ] It will here perhaps be objected, that all thefe means wrould be to no purpofe, if the brachial or crural arteries are wounded at a certain height, becaufe, in fuch a cafe, the limb mu ft wafte away for want of nourifh- ment. I fhall return an anfwer in a few words, with refpedt to the crural artery at the upper part of the thigh, which is, that whether my method can, or cannot be adopted in this cafe, there is no alternative ; no furgeon as far as I know having ventured to perform amputation at this part, becaufe every body would dread the patient’s expiring during the operation *: Neither would the wounds of the brachial artery induce me to take off the arm at its upper part, although it be practicable, becaufe 1 think every ex¬ pedient is to be tried before we have recourfe to this; and as from feveral cafes we learn, * I have not yet read the Differtation on this fubjefl, which obtained the prize from the royal Academy of Surgery; but by perfons arrived from Paris, 1 have been informed, that the author carried a dog with him to the Academy, whole thigh he had cut off at the articu* lation. Note by Tijfot. There muff be a miflake in this place, fince the writers of thefe pieces for the prize never make themfelves known. Not that I make any doubt of the pofiibility of taking off the thigh of a dog, but I don’t apprehend that fuch a fa£f can be at all conclufive with refpeft to the fame operation on the human fpecies. that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30786988_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
