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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    in Tome of the raoft confiderable fea engagements, during the late war; in all which I had the good fortune to fave nine in ten, at leaft, of thofe who underwent the opera¬ tion directly after the injury requir¬ ing it was received ; when not more than one in three recovered, where it was deferred two or three days, ei¬ ther on account of their unwilling- nefs to fubmit fooner, or from the hope I entertained that a cure might be effected without it. If then it be granted that the con- fequent danger of an amputation is much leffened by the operation’s being performed upon an healthy fubjedt, immediately after the injury requiring it is received ; it follows, that either the poor waggoners were uncommon¬ ly unfortunate, or that the Agaric occafioned their deaths. That the latter might poffibly, and not im¬ probably, be the cafe, may, I think, be