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A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read].

  • Alexander Reid
Date:
1638
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Credit: A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are fbch as leave a hurt ftill after them when they are cured: fcch is that wotmd by the which a nmftle is cut mnlverft quite a (under * for then the n ft of that part is taken aWay, which was moved by that mufcle. Letbaliajot deadly wounds, are (uch as bring inevitable death : fuch are wounds which divide the great vdJels[ neere to the liver or heart.So the noble D. of Buckingham Wksdift patched by a wound which he received in the a,terl'd veriofc Ifyou would know to which of theft a wound which is offered to you to be cured, is to be referred, you rtnift dili¬ gently examine theft foure things: Firft, the part afft&ed. Secondly, the adjun&s of the wound. Thirdly, the habit of the body. Fourchly* the things not natural!. As for the part, you are to confider, Fir ft, its dignity: Se* condly, its fubftance: Thirdly,thetcmperatnrer Fourthly, the lituation of it: Fifthly, the quantity, in the bignefe and number: Laftly, the aft of the part. . Adjua&s to be confidered in a wound are theft: The big- nefie, the figure, the fituation, the (ymptomes, and laft of all other diftafts .complicate with the wound, as the French pOx, or dropfie,8rc. * • ‘ As for tile habit of the body, you are to confider whether it be good or ill, ofalooft ora firme fubftance, whether it befullor extenuare:neither is the temperature of it to be negle<5ftd. . 1 -.d, • •• • . - ^ As/or the things not natural!* asayre, meat, and drihke^ fleepingahd watching, and the reft of them, I wilHhhvthe lift of them1 when I am come to the eonfideration of every particular wound. Now it folio weth that I fhew you then ft cf theft pro* gnofticall(prings orfotrri taihes, by fitting downe ftmepre- di&ions derived from them. : < Firft,a noble part, the beginning of a faculty in continual] motion, the body being of an ill habit, receiving a great Wound, muftofa necelFnyfcauft-death: by inda/fioni wiii s&ake thissranifeft^o vj.^vva : iteuui* B 5 >* Secondly, * , .< •’ i %< blow vve may reduces wou^d to one of thefe kindes. Things to be confidered in a pare wounded. The adjunft* of wounds. The habit of the body. The things not aaturalU Preditfions drawn^o.n theforenamed prognofticall (prings. , >