Volume 1

A system of surgery / By Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
M, DCC, XCVI
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A system of surgery / By Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cafes the fafed pra&ice to affid her as much as poflible, by the ufe of fuch appli- cations as will mod readily bring the fwel- ling to fuppuration. There are other tumors again, proceed- ing from an internal caufe too, in which it is perhaps bed to do nothing either with a view to refolve or fuppurate: Thus, in fwellings proceeding from fcrophula, it might be dangerous to make ufe of repel- lent applications, at the fame time that it is not often advifeable to promote their fuppuration, from the cure of the fores which fucceed to this proving always te- dious and uncertain and fuch fwellings, it is well known, may remain for a great length of time, without any fort of rifk to the patient; fo that, in general, we think it mod prudent never to meddle with them. In Lues Venerea too, as we are podeded of almod a certain antidote for the difor- der; and as buboes, and other indammato- ry fwellings that|occur in it, are common- ly, when opened, exceedingly troublefome, and