An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp].

  • Sharp, William, M.D.
Date:
[1767]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    185/188 (page 37)
    their catalogue of the terrible accidents which occur in falivating even in the moft experien¬ ced hands, &c..) that fpitting is always a force upon nature, whence thefe accidents ; and that nature her felf (by their own confeffion) has pointed out to us the moil eafy, natural, and commodious way of carrying off both the difeafe and the mercury, (and can we follow a greater matter) viz. through the common and large canal of the inteftines, which fhe has placed in the middle of our bodies, like an aquedudl or common fhore9 to receive and carry off all the natural or preter¬ natural impurities of our bodies, offending or endangering our conftitutions ? Has it not alfo been proved above by repeated experiments, that the fundtions of maftication, deglutition, digeftion, &c3 (always impaired, and fometimes deftroyed by fa¬ livating) were preferved intire through our whole procefs ? And that the cure is more certain than by their method ? Now, after all, Dr. Turner and his patrons may ask what I have done in this little work, ex¬ cept tranflating a French author? To which I an- fwer, that I have communicated to the fraternity an eafier, fhorter, and more effectual method of curing all the ffages of this diftemper, than either of them have as yet done (and proved it to be fur- prifingly fuccefsful by my own experienceJ a me¬ thod which many of them might never have heard of; a method fo different from that fo long efta~ blifhed, that few of them would ever have tried, though they had heard of it: Nay, fome of them, like the learned Dr, Aftruc, &ca who had