A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / [James Moore].
- Moore, James D., III
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / [James Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in ] ftantly deftroys fenfation, and voluntary motion in that part. Cutting quite through certainly deftroys the texture of the nerve ; and I have a ftrong fufpicion, that when the ligature is made fo tight as injlantly to ftop fenfation in the parts below, tying it in that manner deftroys its texture alfo. But compreffion does not injure the nerve fo much, as either cutting, or fuch tying. And to this circumftance perhaps it is owing that it requires fome time before compreffion produces that degree of infenfibility which is inftantly the effect of the other two me¬ thods. Be that as it may, it certainly does require a certain time before the infenfibi¬ lity follows the greateft compreffion. This has never before been obferved, or applied to the purpofe of preventing the pain in furgical operations. The idea that a certain fluid, which has been diftinguiftied by the name of animal fpirits, flows in the nerves, and that it is by the means of this fluid, and its free egrefs and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792897_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
