The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker].

  • Parker, Henry, active 1745-1780.
Date:
1755
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Credit: The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] be of bis bleeding to death before any proper affiftance could poffibly be got, the parts would be become too tender, perhaps, to fuftain the preffure of a ligature; or if they were not, the taking up the vefiels at this time, would be fo much more painful than at that of the operation, as to make the confequence exceedingly doubt¬ ful. One of the advantages the Agaric is faid to have of the Ligature, is, that it reftrains the bleeding without pain. This, it muff be confefied, carries with it fome fhew of reafon ; but upon re¬ flection, I fancy, it will be thought that the pain occafioned by the tour¬ niquet’s being kept tight a confider- able time, and repeated twice, thrice, or oftner, as occaflon may require, will be nearly, if not altogether, equal to that of the ligature; and much more fo, if we add to it the fear and anxiety a patient, who has any fenfe of danger, mu ft necefiarily under-
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