A probationary essay on the utility of the actual cautery in some surgical diseases : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh when candidate for admission ... / by James Begbie.

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1822
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Credit: A probationary essay on the utility of the actual cautery in some surgical diseases : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh when candidate for admission ... / by James Begbie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ou il etait, et le guerit parfaitement Dr. Barde, in his communication already referred to, gives the history of a very interesting case of sciatica, which had for seven years nearly resisted every remedy. The patient was redu- ced to a most distressing state ; unable to move a limb or turn in bed ; yet the application of four moxas along the course of the sciatic nerve, and two others afterwards on the knee, was attended with the happiest effects. A month after their application he was able to go about his usual employment, which he had not done for seven years f. Dr. Duncan, jun. has lately employed the moxa, in several cases of this affection, in the Clinical wards of our Royal Infirmary with complete success. It would have been easy to have extended these observations, and to have gone on to ad- duce examples of the beneficial effects of the * Prix de l'Academie Royale de Chirurgie, tome vii. p. 223. t Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine, vol. ii. p. 451.