A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / [James Moore].

  • Moore, James D., III
Date:
1784
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Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / [James Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parts of the body, are the immediate organs of feeling and voluntary motion. For when the trunk of a nerve, whofe branches are difperfed to any particular part, is cut or tied, the part to which thofe branches go, immediately lofes feeling and voluntary motion. The firft thought that occurred to me was, that, to cut the trunk of a nerve going to a limb, might be done with little pain, and enable us to perform the amputation with no pain at all. But a very little reflection convinced me that this was impracticable. For, fuppofe the am¬ putation of the leg, below the knee, is to be performed ; cutting the nerves imme¬ diately above the part where the incifion is to be made, would not be fufficient; becaufe the ikin and flefli below the knee, receive fenfation from branches thrown off much higher up. To render the infenfibility complete, it would be neeeflary to cut the two great nerves at the top of the thigh, foon after they iflue out of the pelvis. But one of them, the crural nerve, runs in contaCt with the crural artery and vein; and the
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