A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the inrstruments [sic] used in performing them : to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses, and ulcers / by Samuel Sharpe.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the inrstruments [sic] used in performing them : to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses, and ulcers / by Samuel Sharpe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CASE III. A. C. aged 37, of a very hale habit of body, had complained of a tumour on one fide of the fcrotum; which continuing to enlarge for fix years, he applied to a furgeon, who laid a fmall cauftic on the upper part of it, and, opening the efchar, emptied near three pints of water; but he relapfing foon after this, I undertook the abfolute cure. December 15th 1736,1 laid on the anterior and upper part of the fcrotum a cauftic about fix inches long and one broad. December 16th, by a fmall pundlure thro' the efchar, I emptied above a quart of water. From the 17th to the 24th, he continued in a great deal of pain, not only in the part, but in his back and loins, and had very little reft; the fcrotum on that fide became exceed- ingly inflamed and thickened, the fympto- matic fever running very high, without any figns of the digeftion of the wound. On the 24th at night he grew a little eafier, and continued fo till the 29th, when the Hough feparated; but the wound retained flill a bad afpedt, no granulations appearing on its furface. From December 29, to fan, 5. he remained in the lame ftate. From the 5th to the 13th, the fwelling and pain rather increafed; and that night he was feized