On the results of the operations for cicatrices after burns / by J.H. James.

  • James, J. H. (John Haddy), 1788-1869.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the results of the operations for cicatrices after burns / by J.H. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a necessary, is by no means a usual result, and tlie others offer no contrary evidence. In addition to the results of my own experience, it is highly important that I should state the fact that from 1818 till the present period (fifty years) nume¬ rous operations on the neck and extremities have been performed by my colleagues, and with great success. The fact speaks for itself, for it cannot be supposed that such men as the late Mr. Barnes and Mr. Harris, and the present surgeons, Mr. De la Garde and Mr. Kempe, the former of whom has been nearly thirty years one of the surgeons, the latter over twenty, would have continued to perform these operations, both in the neck and extremities, unless they had been successful; and I am gratified at finding that both Mr. Boper and Mr. Gumming (appointed since my illness) continue the practice. In a conversation with Mr. Kempe a short time since, he expressed a decidedly favorable opinion, and not only so, but, whilst speaking of the collar, which he greatly approved, he also commended its use in strong terms in cases of diseased cervical spine, of which more hereafter. It is in my power to give the recorded evidence of my friend Mr. He la Garde, in a very able address he delivered at Torquay in 1860, at the meeting of the British Medical Association. After doing full justice to my share in the introduction of the operation, he describes a case in the neck of extreme severity, in which he perfectly succeeded, but not without long-continued
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