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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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    ATreatife ofWtiunds. Rowling. of the lips of the wound, which will caufe inequality in tl\e skin ^and fc deformity. Lect. VIII. Agglutinative ^Medicaments 3 and l\owling. IN my former Le&are I affirmed, that the lips ofwounds which are to be united by agglutirfation, ought not only to be brought together, but to bee kept fo alfo: I fet down in like manner three rneanes by the which the brims are kept together: to wit,llqueation or dry ftitch Jutura the fticching with needle and threed, and fafcU rowliag. Having amply difeourfed of the firft two, now am I to fpeake of the third meane, to wit,Rowling. Fafciatio ant dz~ ligatio perfajeias 3 is when wee labour to kcepe the lips of the wound, that they may the iooner and more firmly be united together by the rneanes of rowling. As concerning this meane, which induftrious Chirurgeons have deviled, to at- taineto their end and fcope,which is theunition of the parts dis]oyned,I will fet downe tbefe three points. The firft ffiall bee of the matter of rowlers. The (ccond (hall be of the divers kinds of rowlings in wounds. In the third point I will (hew how they are to be applyed according to art. As concerning the matter of rowlers, they ought to be of linnen: for woollen rowlers. are apt to admit ftretching, and fo cannot make fuch conftri&ion as thofe of linnen doe. Secondly, they cauie itching, and heatrthe part too much, by which rneanes attra&ion of humours is cauled, which al- tereth the naturall temperature of the part, and fo hindereth the unition of the parts of it fevered. Now the linnen rowlers muftnot bee of cloth too new, for then they will be too ftiffe and hard: nor of cloth too much worne, for then they will bee too weake. Neither Rowling. rauft