A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries : and on the use of the ligature ; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage ; the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J.F.D. Jones, M.D. member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London.

  • Jones, J. F. D. (John Frederick Drake), approximately 1780-1813.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries : and on the use of the ligature ; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage ; the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J.F.D. Jones, M.D. member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these are the principal instances, and the periods of examination, from which Mr. Pouteau undertook to write a Memior on the means which Nature employs for the suppression of hemorrhage; and that too in opposition to the descriptions of those means, which had been previously given, and notwithstanding the ample illustration of them afforded by the first expe- riments which he performed on horses. We find Gooch also entering the lists against Petit, and thus claiming the merit of a prior opinion: Since I wrote these papers, I have observed Mons. Pou- teau, senior surgeon of the Hotel-Dieu, at Lyons, in his Melanges de Chirurgie, printed in 1760, and Mr. Kirkiand, an eminent surgeon in this kingdom, *f in his Treastise upon suppressing hemorrhages from divided arteries, published in 1763, differ in their sentiments from Mons. Petit, whose hypothesis is, that hemorrhages are stopped after amputations by il coagula of blood, formed several inches up the ar- teries, as appears in the Mem. del'Acad. Roy. des Sciences. I have the satisfaction to find the experi- ments, made by these two gentlemen, fully support my opinion upon this subject, which I wished to have had an opportunity of making myself, when I published it among some cases and remarks in sur- gery, in the year 1758.—Gooch's Chirurgical Works, Vol. I. p. 172, note, published 1766. The opinion referred to, and which he set up in opposition to what he considered as defective experi- ments or crude observations of Petit, he thus expressed in his cases in surgery: According to that hypothesis