Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    O H GANGRENES and MORTIFICATIONS. MEDICINE like all other arts and fciences hath had its infancy. Near two thoufand years have elapfed fince Hip- pocrates laid the firrt: regular foundation of the Rudy, on which the fabric, as it now Rands, has gradually rifen. Each fucceeding age, as might be expe&ed, improved upon the laR, and either rec- tified its errors, or enlarged the circle of its knowledge, with additional experi- ments and freih difcoveries. Though much light has been thrown by the moderns on the treatment of gangrenes and mortifica- tions, there Rill remains much to be done. It has been for fome time univerfally A 4 allowed