Excerpt from The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, F. R. S., Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, With His Last Corrections, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Are Added, a Short Account of the Life of the Author, a Method of Curing the Hydrocele by Injection, and Occasional Notes and Observations by Sir James Earle The prevention of a flux of humours to a broken limb by bandage, is a common phrase; but they who use it, have either no idea at all annexed to it, or a very erroneous one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.