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]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    6/56 (page 2)
    too great a trefpafs on your patience, in giving you a more detailed account of that * « . v bufmefs, with a view, provided I have your approbation, of fubmitting it to public in- flection. I hope that the importance of the fubjedt will in fome meafure apologize for hie, as it rnuft be allowed, that, of the va- rious injuries and difeafes by which man- kind are deprived of Kmbs, thofe affedting the larger articulations' form no inconfide- rable lhare. • i 4 , Scrophulous affections of the joints, com- monly diftinguifhed by the name of White 5 wellings;—colledtions of pus in the articu- lar cavities, originating hi fimple inflamma- tion- j — gun-fhot wounds and compound fradtures of the joints j—nay, even the molt fimple, penetrating wounds,; however fa- vourable may be the termination in fome few cafes, are neverthelefs, in fpite of all the modes of obtaining relief hitherto dif- «overed, but too frequently produdtive of fueh