A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation : in which the various methods of performing these operations are shown, together with their after-treatment ; and containing an account of the author's successful case of amputation at the hip-joint ... / by G.J. Guthrie.

Date:
1827
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Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation : in which the various methods of performing these operations are shown, together with their after-treatment ; and containing an account of the author's successful case of amputation at the hip-joint ... / by G.J. Guthrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    performed until after suppuration had been established, a period probably of six weeks, which, even if the patient survived, was often found to be too late to be serviceable. From the failure of this practice, the con- trary one of immediate amputation became gradually more general during the war, and at its close, I not only advocated and established the propriety of it, but examined the reasoning on which Mr. Hunter’s opinions were founded, and I trust have proved it to be defective. That it was so ought indeed to have been presumed, when the facts were found to be opposed to the reasons. It was not however on the single point of amputation that this reasoning led into error, it embraced the whole subject of inflammation and its consequences, which I believe can only be consistently viewed on the principles regarding the human constitution which I have advanced. The variations in the nature and appearances of Erysipelas may through them be more easily comprehended, and the treatment of mortifi- cation more scientifically undertaken. The Baron Larrey had shown, that in gangrene from wounds, amputation might occasionally be resorted to with success during its progress, in opposition to the received opinions of the schools ; but he did not explain that this was entirely dependent on the circumstance of its being local. The division I have made into