A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers : with a dissertation on white swellings of the joints : to which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / by Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers : with a dissertation on white swellings of the joints : to which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / by Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and ill which itiany ufeful improvements are yet probably to be made. The treatifc on inflammation and its confe'* quences, was read, feveral years ago, before the College of Surgeons of this place ; and as it was approved of by fome of my friends, I now infert it here with fome additions and aherations: As many of the obfervations, too, relating to.inflam- mation, apply with equal propriety to different circumftances of ulcers, the confideration of that fubje6l could not, it was prefumed, be any whfre more properly introduced. White fwellings of the joints is another com-* plaint in the treatment of which we are exceed- ingly deficient; and I am forry to obferve, that what I have to offer upon it does not tend fo much to its farther elucidation as I could Lave wiflied. But no regular account having ever been given of white fwellings; and as 1 have had many opportunities, both of feeing fuch complaints treated in the ordinary way, and of diffeding the difeafed joints after amputation; I thought it might prove acceptable to the reader to have a full account of the prattice employed in them, as well as of the obfervations 1 have made in diffedions* This I have endeavoured accurately to do; but having nothing altogether fatisfa61:ory to communicate on the method of cure, prolixity on any other part of the fubjeft would not, I know, to the genera- lity of praditioners, prove very acceptable.