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A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read].

  • Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641
Date:
1638
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Credit: A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A T real if? of bounds l gent medicaments 5 if we cannot come to reach to the Yeflell with the finger, by reafon of the depth of the wound, fuch are bole Armen iack, terra figiBata, marking Gone, byfecjttit finguK draconis, new gaules, the juyce of the Sloe, Plancane* Comfrey, KnotgrafTe, Miitole, Horfe-taile, and Leekes • of thek you may frame fuch compofidons as this is: IV -facet tm» [ohmijor. polygon, eymfztian. § ft, facet fol. pom ^i. bol. oriental. 5*1, pmgmn. dracon.$$.Mifc- Such medicaments are powerful!, when the menftruall courfes in women flow immoderately. 5 The fifth way to flay bleeding, is the tranfvers fe&ion and cutting afunder of the great veflell, which powreth out the bloud. Whenfoever a horrible cfFufioa of bloud follovveth after a wound, you may gather that the veflell is not cut a* funder tranfvers,unlefle there be an enorme feparation of the parts wounded, not differing much from difmembring: for if the veflell be cut tranfvers wholly afunder by a fharpe wea¬ pon, that part of it which is next to the radication of it, fflrinketh up towards it beginning, and is covered with the flefti of the adjacent parts. If fuch a cafe be prefenced to you, follow Galen his counfell, who 5. Method, 5. advifeth that you life up the veflel from the fubjacent parts with a fiiver hooke, and fo divide it being feparate; and that afterward you twift the upper part of the veflell, which is eafiiy done by laying hold ofthe part of the veflell which is without the hooke. That kind of fiiver hooke which is ufed in Anatomicall di£ fc&ions,is fitteft,for this wreathing of the mouth of the vefc fell hindereth the effluxion of bloud. # * ✓ The fixth way to flay bleeding in a wound, is to cauie an efehare. Now this may bee done either by an a&uall cautery, or by an efcharoticall medicament: But wee ought not, but upon great nece(fitie,tohave recourfeto uftion. Firft, be- caufe it is horrible to the fight and apprehenfion; tor it doth in a manner exanimat cowardly per fans. Secondly, became the benefit of it is uncertaine: tor often times after that cruft or efehare is fallen,a new hemorrage doth enfue. If you be driven to ufe the aft wall cautery, then you are to cbferve two