Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White.

  • Charles White
Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    allowed that amputation Inftead of flop¬ ping, in all cafes, thefe complaints, in many, expedites their ravages, and that we flhould not only wait till the mortification ceafes, but till the reparation is far advan¬ ced, before fuch an operation is attempted. In fome cafes, even the flighted: fcarifica- tions have been known to be followed by the worft of confequences. We are much indebted to Mr. Rufhworth of North¬ ampton, and to Mefirs. Ranby, Chefelden, Amyand, Shipton, Dickin, and Alexander Monro, fenr. for their communications refpefting the ufe of the bark in fuch diforders, and it was, for fome time, con- fidered as a certain remedy, in every fpecies of this difeafe. Our hopes were unfortu¬ nately too fanguine, and though, in many cafes, it ftill maintains its credit, and is a very powerful and efficacious remedy, it mult be acknowledged there are others where it has been exhibited with lefs fuccefs. Dr. Aftruc, and that able and ingenious furgeon Mr. Samuel Sharp, from its failure, in their extenfive practice, had lefs reliance on its virtues than it feems really to deferve, and were even doubtful
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