An historical sketch of medicine and surgery, from their origin to the present time, and of the principal authors, discoveries, improvements, imperfections and errors / by W. Black, M.D.

  • William Black
Date:
1782
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Credit: An historical sketch of medicine and surgery, from their origin to the present time, and of the principal authors, discoveries, improvements, imperfections and errors / by W. Black, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ J°7 ] who dlfcharged a tape-worm, twelve cubits iji length, which was forced from the inteftines, by a dofe of Hiera Picra. He defcribes fevcral fpe- pies of melancholy infanity, and in the cure, truft- ed more to purgatives, and ftill more to diet, baths, exercife, travelling and amufements, than to a jumble of drugs. The hellebore then had fallen into fome difrepute. He makes feveral new remarks on air, water, baths, exercife, and other means to preferve health. On fome occafions he betrays a weak credulity in amulets and charms. Notwithftanding thofe faults, there are many ex- cellent obfervations in his book, which is calcu- lated for life and praefife. Surgery and female idifeafes are omitted by Trajlian. Surgery derives intrinfic information from Paulus Egineta, (P. C. 640 :) his treatife on the manual operations, is fuperior to Celfus, and all the other ancients. He diredls how to extradt darts; to perform the operation fometimes required in dangerous ruptures or hernias, where the in- teftines canpot by any other means be returned back; to tie up pundlured arteries in the opera- tion for the Aneurifm. Galen, Paulus, and all the ancients, fpeak of one fpecies only of aneu- rifm, and define it to be “ a Tumour arifing from arterial blood, extravafed from a ruptured artery.’* The aneurifm from a dilatation of the artery is a difeovery of the moderns. In violent inflam- mation of the throat, where immediate danger of fuffocation threatned, Paulus opened into the wind- pipe