Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons.

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons. 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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    and of cold, have indeed been deemed ine- ligible by^ most surgeons, although Le Dran, I no mean authority in the profession, has, from the result of his own experience, en- deavoured to over-rule any objection to the ' winter months, by proposing to attemper I the severity of the cold by the emission of i artificial heat into the apartment of the pa- I tient. And, were the coldness of the season i the only impediment to recovery, this pro- I posal is obvious, and’ convincing. But loaded as is the atmosphere over one of our 1 large towns with smoke, and other impu- I rities, owing principally to the prodigious I consumption of fossil-coal, that season of the I year, in which the density, and coldness of I the atmosphere are most prevalent, is, with I us at least, to be disapproved. For the I ascent, and dissipation of these vapours, and I exhalations, is thus hindered, or prevented ; 1 and their injurious effects are in consequence I most severely felt by the sick. I ' To sustain this opinion of the prejudicial influence of smoke upon wounds, I could I B