Historical surgery; or, the progress of the science of medicine: on inflammation, mortification and gunshot wounds.

  • Hunt, John.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Historical surgery; or, the progress of the science of medicine: on inflammation, mortification and gunshot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    THE IMPERFECTIONS OF THE TREATMENT OF- MORTIFICATION EXEMPLIFIED, BY THE INDIS- CRIMINATE USE OF THE BARK AT IMPROPER PERIODS OF THE DISEASE. fuccefsfui treatment of gangrene, fphacelus, or mortification, is mentioned with fuch unlimited confidence both in books andconver- fation, that it may at firft view be confidered prefumptuous to queftion the validity of the general opinion. We frequently hear of inftances of curing mortification, as if it was a bufinefs very eafy to accomplifh: and what is fiill more extraordinary, fome of the firft writers on the fubjeft exprefs themfelves as if it was a fettled point in the praftice of furgery; and yet, with all their boafted certainty of fuccefs, I have never met with any rational fyftem of pra6lice that, in my opinion, was likely to prove efficacious. When the leading objeft of any critical difcuffion is tofearch for truth, not a doubt can arife refpedling the propriety of the inquiry; and as eve- ry one, who addreffes the public, undoubtedly expe6ls fome degree of at- tention in return; it is certainly a mark of refpe6i; to examine a book, B ' though