Note 48 — A DISSERTATION ON THE Inutility of Amputation.

Fifty years, a compliment which Mr. Bilguer pays surgeons of a more modern date.

M. le Conte de B... a general officer in the Austrian service, received a wound much of the same kind, at Hochirken, and had the good fortune to be compleatly cured by M. Brunet, without amputation, which appeared indispensably necessary. He only continued a little weak, which in a man of his age and constitution generally goes off of itself: He was advised to go to the baths at Baden in Austria, and on his return was seized with an inflammatory fever, which proved mortal. Tissot.