An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park.

  • Park, H. (Henry), 1745-1831.
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [i.e. 1783]
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Credit: An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Though here, perhaps, it may he objected, that I am recommending an operation which I have not yet performed on the living fub- jedt. I grant it;—yet think myfelf autho- rized to do fo by the fiiccefs of the attempt on a joint, in which I hope I have fufficient- ly {hewn that the undertaking is attended, with much greater difficulties and hazard; and by the event of the following cafe, which fell under the care of my worthy friend and colleague Mn Alanfon, already fufficiently known to the chirurgical world, by his ex- cellent Obfervations on Amputation; and which will be allowed to be much to my prefent purpofe, as it was a Cafe in which the fame end was in fome meafure obtained, though by Nature alone, without the aid of inftruments. Elizabeth Malcomb, a woman upwards of fifty years of age, was admitted into the In- firmary on the 15th of March, 1781, for an extenfive Gangrene in the Arm, occafioned by