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The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner].

  • Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.
Date:
1741
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Credit: The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, firft wetting them with a little warm Wine, _ then gently raifing them up, I perceiv’d a Cruft induced upon the Vein; to prevent the too hafty digefting of which, laid ona Pledget of dry Lint, with another dipt in the Balfam over the bare Tendon, which appear’d a little foft and fpongy, and loft daily of its bright or filver Hue, my Dofils from the Wound above, I found the large and profound Sloughs, both on the Edges as well as Bottom, growing ftill loofer, and like- ly to caft off in few Days; fo that although our Progrefs had been fomewhat retarded by this new Effufion, yet was the reft of the Wound in good Condition, the upper Stitch ftill continuing, but fomething gaping, through which I let fall fome of the warm Balfam, with a Pledget dipt in the fame over it: The reft I fprinkled as before with my Precipitate, laying down foft Dofils as for- merly, with an outfide Pledget of the Digeftive, and with Comprefs and Bandage drefs’d him up again, placing his Arm upon a thin quilted Pad, inftead of a Pillow, for fear of keeping it too warm, in a Pofture between a Curve and a ftrait Line, the Elbow making an obtufe Angle. I defignedly omitted the Ufe of the Fomenta- tion, both now and feveral Days after, left by its Heat, rarifying and attenuating the Blood, the fame might again happen to break its Boundaries, and create us farther Difficulties. But from this Drefling we daily got Ground, the E/char lying faft till the Veffel was incarn’d ; the Sloughs likewife feparating, and the Wound with the Digeftive, and the O/. Terebinth. left off: The Dofils being armed with the Limm. Acai, were dipt in fome of the fame diffolved wVonaL Cyc with