Volume 1

Cases in surgery, with remarks. Part the first / by Charles White. To which is added, an essay on the ligature of arteries, by J. Aikin.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1770
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Credit: Cases in surgery, with remarks. Part the first / by Charles White. To which is added, an essay on the ligature of arteries, by J. Aikin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [95 ] An Account of a new Method of reducing Shoulders, which have been feveral months diflocated, without the ufe of an Ambe, 7m cafes where the common Methods have proved ineffectual, publifhed in the Med:- cal Obfervations and Inquiries. Vol. Il. P+ 373- R. LONGWORTH of Long- worth’s folly in Manchefter, aged fixty, applied to me about the year 1748, to reduce a diflocation of his right fhoul- der, which had happened two. months before, and upon which feveral unfuc- cefsful attempts had been made by a fur- geon of extenfive practice and great ex= perience, under whofe care he was put immediately after the accident. Upon exa- mining him I found that the head of .the humerus had paffed beyond the coracoid procefs, and lay under the pectoral mufcle; a fituation generally attended with a great deal of trouble.