Boths Sides Dudley on the Bandage de Dudley, Benjamin - 1828

Transvylania Journal of Medicine, 1828. Unstated. . Soft cover. Good/Poor. Both Sides Dudley on the Bandage Extract from Transylvania Journal of Medicine Vol. 1. #14 November 1828 Card stock cover attached to sewed binding in acceptable condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding of pages tight, however card stock cover is falling apart, tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Cover is clean but as stated is falling apart. This is a very early study of the use of bandages. Short article with responses and comments from readers of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine., with authors responses. Dr. Dudley was induced to prepare a paper on injuries of the head. This remarkable paper forms the first article in the first number of that journal. Seldom has an article appeared in modern times setting forth more original views. By a number of cases he showed that epilepsy is frequently caused by pressure on the brain, resulting from fractures of the cranium, and is curable by trephining. Five epileptics were operated upon, and three out of the five were relieved; while the other two were much benefited by the operation. Dr. Dudley always and justly referred to his operation of trephining for epilepsy as constituting a new era in surgery. Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley was born in Virginia, on the 12th of April, 1785. Medicine being the profession to which his taste inclined him, he was placed by his father, when very young, under the tuition of Dr. Frederick Ridgely, an eminent physician at that time and for many years after in a large practice, he in the fall of 1804 he went to Philadelphia to attend medical lectures. At the close of his second course in the University of Pennsylvania he took the degree of M. D., near the end of March, 1806 just two weeks before he was twenty-one years old. Wanting to study in Europe he purchased a cargo of flour and went with it to Europe to study. His attention while abroad had been specially directed to the bandage as an agent, among other things, for controlling ulcers of the extremities. It at once occurred to him that this appliance was adapted to the treatment of the burrowing abscesses with which he was continually meeting. The efficiency of the bandage, now recognized by every surgeon, was at that time not fully understood. Dr. Dudley's success with it in these cases was striking, and from its novelty, as well as its efficacy, his practice drew upon him general attention. In I817, three years after his return to Lexington, the Board of Trustees of Transylvania University determined to create a medical department in that institution, then the leading college in the West, which they asked him to head. The rest is history.