Historical surgery, or the progress of the science of medicine : on inflammation, mortification, and gun-shot wounds.

  • Hunt, John.
Date:
1801
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    the beft method of performing it. In cafes of fractures and diflocations, a variety of inftruments has been thought neceflary ; and I believe no part of furgery has been more incumbered with a profufion of ufelefs inventions. In Mr. Gooch’s fecond volume we meet with a great variety of this kind of inftruments; but Mr. Pott contributed much more to the improvement of furgery, by pointing out the soft advantageous pofition of a frabtured limb, than all thefe inftrumental Genii put together. What particularly recommends this fubjebt to our attention is, the notice that is taken of thefe inftruments by Mr. Bell, who has given exabt copies of Mr. Gooch’s plates in his fyilem of furgery, in confequenee of which a number of ufelefs inventions is recommended to public attention, which without this revivification would for ever have palled unnoticed. The want of attention to the mechanifm of nature is the original, caufe of all thefe prabtical imperfections; but the fcience