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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![f [ 2(5 ] * t ' ' y * ’ i *r iron, covered with leather, and of fuffi- cient capacity to contain the thigh within its curve. B, a firm comprefs of leather, at one ex¬ tremity of the inftrument, which is to he placed on the fciatic nerve. ’ ' * C, a fcrew palling through a hole at the other extremity of the inftrument, and terminating in D, an ’ oval comprefs to be placed on the crural nerve. . When this inftrument is to be applied, it will be neceffary in the firft place to fearch for the fciatic nerve. For this pur- f ■v • - - • pofe, let the operator feel for the tuberofity of the os ifchium, and then for the great trochanter, and fuppofing a ftraight line drawn from the one to the other, apply the comprefs B about an inch above the middle of that line. * The crural nerve is found by the pulfa- tion of the crural artery which runs con¬ tiguous to it. The oval comprefs D muft next](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792897_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
