The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker].

  • Parker, Henry, active 1745-1780.
Date:
1755
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Credit: The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LIGATURE PREFERABLE TO A G A R I C, &c. URGERY has, of late years, received a great many, and very coniiderable improve¬ ments in moft of its principal Ope¬ rations ; but few, or none, I think, have been of more fignal fervice to mankind, or done greater honour to their inventors, than thofe made upon amputations; in changing the hngle incifion for the double one, and the a&ual cautery for the liga¬ ture. This laft has now found a for- » • *.. *> * i' ' y * ■ • - midable rival in the Agaric of the oak; the extraordinary virtues of