Identifier: systemofsurgery04bell (find matches)
Title: A system of surgery
Year: 1787 (1780s)
Authors: Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806
Subjects: Surgery Surgery
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Charles Elliot ... (et al.)
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^ !.•> Ch. XXXIIL Difeafes of the Nipples. 375 proteding the nipples during the cure.When property fitted to the parts, they notonly protea them from the fridion of thecloaths, but allow the milk to run off asquickly as it falls from the brcaft. CHAP- ^ues. Ch. XXXllr CHAPTER XXXlV. ^ I S S U E S< ISSUES are fmall artificial tilcers tvhicfewe form in different parts of the hodj^for the purpofe of procuring a difchargeof purulent matter. A« I have elfewhere treated fully of theadvantages that may be derived from if*fues, and of the manner in which theyfcem to acl in the cure of difeafes, it is notat prefent necelTary to enter minutely up-on this part of the fubjeft: I fiiall there-*fore only obferve in general, that I amdaily more and more convinced of thetitility of iffues in the cure of long conti- Ch.XXXIV. Ofljfuef. yll nued fores, of whatever kind they may be;and that I am ftill of the opinion thatthey aci folely by difcharging a certainquantity of the ferous parts of the

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