Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts.

  • Roberts, Robert.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    159* purgatives, unless there was obstinate consti- pation. He ordered laxative lavements from time to time. The mortality was certainly very small, especially when it is stated, that of the two who died, one laboured under a tuberculous excavation of the lungs, previously to the ac- cession of Fever. The crises of Fever have been pretty generally observed by Laennec at the septenary periods; a circumstance attribu- table to the very little interruption that was offered to the workings of Nature. The report shews that Fevers will be cured by very little— indeed, by no medicine, contrary to what is the case, where there are phlegmatioe of the inter- nal organs;—accompaniments, but not essential parts of Fever. Waving attention to the previous pulmonic disease, in one case, we have here nearly one- twelfth part, under the treatment of Fever, in the climate of France, (Paris) of fatal cases. In my Hospital, extremes of age, and grades of varied disease previously, would have been producible, yet I am confident there is little exaggeration in the report. Some years ago we did run over seventy cases at one time, without having one fatal one to record; and I could retrace my private steps by a Day Book, were it in honest hands, which would warrant the conclusion given. Remember that gicidalcases are not enumerated here.