A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers. With a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / [Benjamin Bell].

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1778
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Credit: A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers. With a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / [Benjamin Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I mud here obferve, however, that although nothing very material be pointed out, in the treatment of the more inveterate fpecies of white Swelling, yet the distinction propofed to be efta- blifhcd, of Rich diforders,into two diftinct fpecies, is a matter of no inconfiderable importance : For, fwellings of this nature, being evidently produced by two fets of very different caufes, the one oc- cafioning a difeafe, which will probably be al¬ ways considered as incurable, and the other a complaint, which may frequently not only be palliated, but even completely carried off, practi¬ tioners ought, therefore, in all fuch diforders, to be as accurate as poffible in didinguifhing the different caufes which appear to have produced them ; and not indiscriminately to confider every cafe of white Swelling as incurable, and to pro¬ ceed accordingly, as is generally done, to imme¬ diate amputation. C O N-