Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons.

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    then on the point of healing, assumed an unfavourable aspect, and shewed a dispo- sition to spread. And, notwithstanding every care, and assistance from medicine, the symptoms progressively advanced, so as to render his recovery very doubtful. Con- sequently, led by my former experience of the benefits resulting to wounds from change of air, I was determined to try it in' this case, and lodgings were accordingly pro- vided at a little distance in the country. At the period of his removal the wound was much larger than it was at the time of the operation, and his debility was extreme. In this condition, however, he was conveyed upon a bed laid in the bottom of a coach, attended by the woman to whose cottage he was removing. And such were her fears for his safety, that, when she first saw hirev at the Infirmary, she repented of her agree- ment, and wished not to have taken him aw'ay. But, though at length induced to consent, her eyes were in consequence kept steadily fixed upon his countenance, as he was going; and, as soon as they had passed without the circle of the smoke, which