Note 22 — A DISSERTATION ON THE Inutility of Amputation.

I do not easily comprehend of what service absorbents can be to wounded patients; but it appears obvious to me, that they must impair the efficacy of the acids, which are clearly indicated with respect to the fever, inflammation and gangrene: The only circumstance in which I imagine they can be of use, is, when the stomach, by taking the acids for several days, is a little disordered, which may happen when the patient has been much reduced by the hemorrhage; then a few doses of absorbents would remove this slight inconvenience. Otherwise, I am convinced, by repeated experience, there is no occasion for them, when the bark is joined with acids, as is judiciously done by Mr. Bilguer. Tissot.