A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs / Written in Latin ... Augmented with the notes of Mr. Tissot ... Now first translated into English, by a surgeon.

  • Bilguer, Johann Ulrich, 1720-1796
Date:
1764
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Credit: A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs / Written in Latin ... Augmented with the notes of Mr. Tissot ... Now first translated into English, by a surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lint, taking all imaginable care to hinder the contad: of the external air. When the ca- - ■» ries is accompanied with a vitiated ftate of the blood, the external treatment is the fame* and fucceeds equally* provided internal me¬ dicines, fuitable to the nature of the ail¬ ment, be joined with it; with this precau¬ tion, a caries from a venereal caufe, may be cured like any othen SECT. XXXIX, I T will certainly be afked, What muft he done when the be ft applications fail, and muft we not amputate when the caries is very extenfive ? I anfwer, that amputation is to no purpofe if the caries be attended with a bad habit of body, and while the morbid caufe remains; when this is remov¬ ed, we ought not to defpair of a cure, al¬ though the greater part of the bone be ca¬ rious, as the cafes I have already related plainly demonftrate *. We ought therefore to try other means, and trepan the bone in feveral places, till whatever is rotten be taken * The obfervations of M. Muzel, p. 83. confirih my opinion, where he fays, that all thofe on whom am¬ putation was performed on account of carious bones, died in conference of it. away.