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firm that a timely and proper Amputation might not have saved his Life; but our Italian Surgeons, besides a Tenderness of Disposition, lay a greater Stress on the Virtue of Medicaments, than on the Adroitness of their Hands, though their Profession receives its Denomination from that Member[1]; therefore it is no Wonder, that the French Surgeons, who act upon opposite Principles, should decry our Method, and reproach us, that the wounded Patients, which have died, by Inches, under our Physic and Plaisters, infinitely outnumber those which have had the good Fortune to be cured; if yet, they are properly cured, who are deprived of the free Use of their Limbs, which is the Case of the Generality.
- ↑ (Κειρονργὸς, qui manibus operatur.)
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