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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    known it ufed, and in two cafes, particularly, with very evident advantages, viz. The web or omentum of a new killed fheep, or of any other animal, to be applied over all the difeafed parts direCtly on being cut out of the animal. In the two cafes alluded to, one was in the knee, and the other in the hand, and the joints from having been totally ufelefs, were almoft perfectly reftored : The application fhould be re¬ newed as frequently as poffible, once a day at leaf!, or oftener when it can be done, for on being more than four or five hours applied, it becomes difagreeable ; and, after that time, in¬ deed, as it commonly turns ftiff, it cannot then probably be of much fervice. The fame kind of remedy, ufed in fomewhat a different manner, I find recommended by Lieutaud a cele¬ brated French practitioner. * I * Mr Lieutaud fays, when fpeaking of fuch affections, tl Obvol- yitur etiam pars affeCta peile callida vervecis, yetuii alteriufve pe- cudis, recens maftati, yel immittitur imum yentrura bovis, vitali calorse hand defraudate.” Synopfis Univerlse Praxeos Medic®, Vol. I. p. 400.