A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / [Samuel Sharp].

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Date:
1743
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / [Samuel Sharp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    verfation, which has very much di(cre¬ dited the Art amongft Men of Senfe; I hope I am right in my Silence on that Head. It has been very much my Endea¬ vour to make this Treatife fhort, and therefore I have given no Hiftories of Cafes, but where the uncommonnefs of the Dodtrine made it proper to illu- ftrate it with Fadt, and thefe I have recited in the molt concife manner I was able: On this account too, I think I have not attempted to explode any Pradtice which is already in difrepute, and if it appears other wife to Men of Skill here in London, I beg they will refer to thofe Books of Surgery which are now the beft efteem’d in Europe, and to which I have almoft always had an Eye in the Criticifms I have made on the generality of Opinions. It is ufual with mod: Writers to » %. *:\ - K defcribe at length the feveral Bandages