Surgical tracts : containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs; ... Together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors; ... / by Michael Underwood ...

Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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Credit: Surgical tracts : containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs; ... Together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors; ... / by Michael Underwood ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ' [ 5° ] remaining injured Bone and Mufcles; but confiderable Extravafation appeared in the cellular Subftance, upon the Pedoralis Major, Scapula, Clavicle, and adjacent Parts: the Eye-brows and Ladies were burnt off, and the Integuments upon the whole Face had fuftered confiderably: the Eyes were clofed with the fwelling of the Lids, the Pulfe and Breathing tolerably good, but the Patient in an urgent State of Stupor, unlefs when confiderably roufed: in fhort he appeared the mod miferable Objeft I had ever feen: his Face, the State of the Arm and adjacent Parts, the Stupor, and confequent Shock up- on the whole'Habit, rendered him a very un- promifing Subjeft to operate upon, and yet there was no Alternative: the Pulfe am Breathing were the only favourable Symp- toms The Operation mud be done with . the Difadvamage of Candle-light, and I had but little Time to form my Plan. I had read Mr. Bromfield’s. Account of his Opera- tions very lately, and it then occurred to me, whether (in cafe of Gun-rtiot, Or compound Traflure, with a wounded Artery, requiring