Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell.

  • Bell, John, 1763-1820.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will bring to pafs, where the moft judicious furgeons have declared the cafe abfolutely defperate, an a - vifed amputation. I may fairly give Mr. Lucas as an example, of a judicious furgeon condemning a limb ; and how well he reafoned, in fo doing, m t ie following cafe, the fequel will explain; and as for this cafe itfelf, it is one of the moft Angular in all re- fpecfls, it proves, in the moft unequivocal manner, that although the conftitution fnould be fo ftrong, and fo well managed, as even to bring the patient fafely through all the dangers of a nine month’s cure; yet the limb fo preferved, will be rather a bur- den than a help to the patient, who will fometimes, even after the cure has been accompliftied, be oblig- ed to have it cut off: “ Either Parfons, aged 73 years, was admitted into the infirmary, as Mr. Lucas’s patient, with a com- pound frafture of each leg, from a coal-waggon pal- ling over them. One of her limbs was taken off above the knee immediately, according to Mr. Allan- fon’s method. In the other leg, four inches of the tibia were removed, and due pains taken to make the woman as comfortable as her deploiable lituation would allow. “ After a confinement in bed for upwards 01 ten months, various attempts were made to fuppoit her upon crutches; but after trying, for a few weeks, fhe endured fo much pain, that fhe begged for the remo- val of a limb, that was to a degree burdenfome, with- out a profpedl of any amendment * Page 234.