Practical observations upon amputation, and the after-treatment.

  • Alanson, Edward, 1747-1823.
Date:
1779
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations upon amputation, and the after-treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The mental Sufferings of the Difeafed will ever be considered, by the humane Practiti¬ oner, as highly inti tied to his Attention j and we cannot avoid ohferving, that after the Tourniquet is applied, every Moment’s Delay detains the Patient in a moft painful State of Mind, which the Application of the Tape greatly prolongs; therefore, if not attended with adequate fuperior Advantages, here is fufficient Reafon for exploding its Ufe. There¬ fore, as foon as the Tourniquet is applied, 4 let an Affiftant grafp the Limb circularly with both Hands, and firmly draw the Skin and Mufcles upwards; the Operator now fixing his Eye upon the proper Part, will make the circular Incifion through the Skin and adipofe Membrane, with confiderable Facility and Difpatch, and the Knife will pafs much quicker, in confequence of the tenfe State in which the Parts are fupported; and the Ope¬ rator’s Attention not being confined to. cut in the exact Direction of the Tape, will enable him to execute in Half the Time. Hence it appears, that the Application of the Tape occafions a confiderable and anxious Stat©