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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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    ‘An Exhor- tation to the Study of Anato- my. Of Wounds in general, Sect. IV. Limbs or Trunk of the Body, where, befides the forefaid Accidents, mortal Hzmorrbages and Convulfions carry off the Patient in an Inftant: But of thefe in our next Seé#ion, when we come to fpeak of Wounds inflicted on fome particu- lar Parts of the Body ; and having fufficient Room in Proportion to the Length of the pre- ceding one, for the Addition of a few Words more, I think the fame cannot be taken up more fuitably, than in earneftly perfuading the young Gentlemen of the Profeffion to the Study of Anatomy, by which, not only the Nature, but the Cure alfo of Wounds will be the better un- derftood. That this Knowledge of the Fabric or Struc- ture of human Bodies is abfolutely neceflary to every one profeffing the Art of Surgery, will need no Arguments, if we confider how often they meet with a Neceffity of dilating or open- ing the Parts in Ab/ceffes, and /inuous or fiftulous Ulcers, where we cannot obtain our Ends by Compreffion and Deligation : To look no farther than the Management even of a Lancet, what fatal Accidents have attended the opening of a Vein in the Arm; for which every ignorant Barber, now a Days, thinks himfelf well qua- lified ? Such, I mean, as Pundtures of the Ten- don, from whence Pain, Convulfion, Apoftemation, at fome Times Gangrene or Mortification, at the beft contracted Members, with ftiff and almoft ufelefs Jomts: ge ai. ue As pernicious, if not more fo, is the Confe- quence of a prick’d Artery, fuch as great He- morrbage, or prodigious Lofs of Blood, with the’ Trouble that attends our beft Endeavours to re- firain it. Lites a > | a But