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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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    Thus dreffing once only in two Days, the Wound beginning to digeft, we went on well for ten ; the Cruft yet fticking, but vifibly, fill ri- fing and falling with the Pu//e, the Tenor of which was here perceptible to the Eye, as in others it is apprehended by the Fingers Ends. » Being now in continual Expectation (on the poor Maid’s Account) I left a more particular Charge with my Servant, that he might readily find me when from Home, if wanted : And on the eleventh Day, as I was at Dinner, fhe was brought into my Surgery, fupported by two of the Servants, bleeding as at firft. I was then provided of a {mall Phial of a /tiptic Water from Mr. Edward Green in Newgate Street, and preffing gently a Button dipt therein, held the fame clofe down upon the Place, and inftantly reftrain’d the Flux, with lefs Comprefs than I had been forc’d to ufe before, and lefs Pain alfo than was occa- fioned by the Vitriol : Over which I placed the wonted Comprefs dipt in Oxycrate, covered with Farina, and rolled the Arm up again, purfuing the former Directions, and defer’d opening till the third Day, only embrocating daily above the Bandage, as alfo on the Back of the Hand, which began to tumefy again.. | When I came to take off the Dreffing, I found the Button fticking clofe, which I left on, and was not without Hopes, that having de- firoyed more of the Artery, and the fame lying lefs in Sight than before, with a fcarce percep- tible Motion, we might now probably be more fecure ; yet upon digefting afrefh the other Parts of the Wound, which were enlarged by the Salts of the Vitriol at firft employ’d, encreas’d in Di- menfions, and the Sloughs cafting off together with the Button, which had been dipt in the | Mm 4 Stiptic