Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication.

  • Shattuck, George Cheyne, 1783-1854.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    I Although Hewson and Hunter have done much towards explaining the principles regulating the co- agulation of the blood, still ?nuch, very much remains to be investigated, before all the principles concern- ed in the process can be satisfactorily applied, by the practising surgeon, to the restoration of destroy- ed parts. After the coagulation has formed, vascu- larity soon commences, and granulations are seen elongating into fibres. In the process of skinning, Mr. John Hunter says a kind of chrystallization takes place. If the blood must undergo a kind of chrys- tillization to renovate destroyed organic fibre, then, in the solution of the food in the gastric liquor, in its elaboration into blood, and in the coagulation of that blood to reproduce lost parts, very little more is to be seen, than may be discovered in the previous solution and subsequent chrystallization of the neu- tral salts. At least there is a striking analogy be- tween the modes of forming the animal and saline chrystal. The successful practice of surgery rests entirely upon a knowledge of those principles of the animal economy concerned in the reproduction of parts, which have been once destroyed. The subject merits the genius and labours of a second John Hunter. The pathology and curative treatment of many of those obstinate cutaneous diseases, which are the