Note 31 — A DISSERTATION ON THE Inutility of Amputation.
S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot translation
Such a pretence would in effect be absurd: The reasoning would amount to this; it is demonstrated that the danger arising from amputation, joined to that attending wounds of themselves curable, has killed a great many patients; therefore the danger arising from this operation, joined to that attending wounds which have proved incurable, would have saved a great many patients: Only the most blinded obstinacy could reason in such a manner. Tissot.