Selected monographs.

  • New Sydenham Society
Date:
1888
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    LOCAL ASPHYXIA AND SYMMETRICAL GANGRENE OF THE EXTREMITIES. CHAPTER I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON SPONTANEOUS GANGRENE. I. Everything concerning spontaneous gangrene is in a state of distressing uncertainty, wrote M. Victor Francois, of Mons, in 1832, in a work which has justly become classical ;* and this acknowledgment of the gaps of knowledge upon this important part of pathology might at that time pass for the exact expression of the truth. If it is permitted to medicine to conceive a legitimate pride in taking a general retrospective survey over its past, then assuredly it is well to do so in all that relates to the subject which is about to occupy our attention. Since the above epoch, and thanks to the progress of patho- logical anatomy, much of the darkness has disappeared, a goodly number of positive facts have been added to knowledge, and if there remains still much to be done, at least the direction is indi- cated and the way opened. Amongst the writers who have con- tributed most to this progress, it is right to assign an honourable rank to the distinguished physician whom I have just cited; his work, based upon a considerable number of observations, is still the most complete treatise that we possess on the subject. Without pretending, as one would do him wrong in saying, that spontaneous gangrene has a vascular obstruction for its constant cause, M. Francois at least established on an extensive basis of statistics the very great frequency of this cause and sought to estimate its mechanism. That is certainly the most practical * Essai snr les gangrenes spontanea. A work crowned in 1830 by the Soc. Roy. de Med. de Bordeaux. Mons, 1832.
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