A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1784
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Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    me with his friendfliip, fometime after the operation, informed me, that this cir- cumftance has been laid hold of, and 1 have fmce learnt from others, that very uncandid conftrudtiqns have been put upon it. This might have given me fome unealinefs, if the malice ^of thofe* infmuations were not entirely .defeated by their abfurdity. Thofe whofe underftandings allow them to believe that a grain of opium could dirninifh the pain of cutting off a limb, will hardly be convinced of the contrary by reafo?iing. All I fhall fay to fuch people is, that if I have difcovered that a grain of opium has fo great an effedt, they muft at leaft allow me the merit of being the firft difcoverer. But every body of common fenfe muft fee, that the method I have fubmitted to the Public, does not admit of impofition; its real merit or futility muft be known; it will not long be in the power of detradtion. to ftifle the one, nor of friendfhip to con-i ceal the other. To attempt impofition, and at the fame time to publifh the means of detedtion, H would