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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Membrane > but, I believe, the very Notion of a Strangulation of the Mufcles, under this Circumftance, is borrowed from a falfe Idea of the Structure of their Membrane ; for it was formerly fuppofed, that each Mufcle was contained within its proper Membrane, as in a Sheath; whereas now we know, that every Fibre of the Mufcle is enveloped with that Membrane ; but, from this miftaken Opinion, very poflibly might arife the Dodrine of fcari- fying the Membrane of the Mufcles, in order to fet them free. When Scarifications and the other Reme¬ dies fail, it has been a Pradice in all Ages, from the time of Hippocrates down to the beginning of this Century, to cauterize the Efchar: The memorable 3 Aphorifm he left behind him relating to the Efficacy of Fire, brought the Cautery into Ufe upon almoft every Occafion. In Mortifications they be¬ lieved, that the putrifying Principle or Venom was extraded, with the Juices that were dried up, by the hot Iron : They thought likewiie, that the Separation of the Sloughs was ex¬ ceedingly affifted by this Procefs; and, what was more important, they imagined, that the 2 111i ajjeftus qui Medica?nentis non failantur, fcrro fanantnr qui fcrro non Janantur> igne fanantur } qui ignc non cur ant m , sxijUmars opottet ivfanabilu. . LA 3 C