Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young.

  • Sam Young
Date:
1841
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Credit: Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    11. ceded it. Eveiy benefactiou, in every age and clime, have all enjoyed the patronage of persecution and abuse. It is so ordau Established Ignorance—it is impossible any improvement can e common fate. Even vaccination itself, now established some half century, a ported as it has been by the profession, and most highly does that so long, so liberally, and so disinterestedly given,, redound to the 1 that profession,—even vaccination itself, even now, requires the aid « 1 ative interference and support to save it (at least in this count] though the land of its birth), from falling to the ground, and b almost a dead letter. No wonder then that the science of compression has received its and its stand-stills. But the most serious impediment to the due and pro advance of the practice was, the breaking down of the author’s occasioned by the anxiety and fatigue he endured in its promulgation At length, however, he returns Avith renovated strength to hi and among several highly interesting and important cases yet xmpi selects the one now given from the circumstance of its local i having attracted, as it has done, so much professional attention as general sympathy. Had the author been ignorant of the practice by compression, 1 entirely have concurred in the opinion of the necessity of the opera was proposed. The minutes of this case, therefore, are here given, not in t distant view, as any slur on such a proposal; quite the contrary. ’ given simply that so important a practice as compression is, may 1 known, and far better and more extensively adopted. And with this view the author faithfully inscribes these minut enlightened practitioners of Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport, i surrounding neighbourhood. And more especially with still greater to the profession at large. For, “ Wide as inspiring Phoebus darts his ray, Diffusive science, spreads its light—like day. March 1, 1841.