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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    [ *9 ] the compreffion half an hour, I loft all fenfation and power of motion below the knee; but the thigh retained a confiderable degree of feeling. This is owing to fome branches of the lumbar nerves, to the ob¬ turator nerve, and branches which the fciatic and crural fend off before they defcend to the thigh, „ not being com- preffed by this inftrument. From which it is evident, that the compreffor will not be able to diminish the pain in amputations above the knee, in fuch a degree as be¬ low. I fpoke on the fubjed to fome gentle¬ men of the faculty, who feemed equally pleafed and furprifed at the effed of the experiments 1 had made, and thought they ought to be publifhed, as the fpeedieft way of afcertaining fo interefting a fad. Being perfedly convinced myfelf that the pain of many operations in furgery would be prevented, or at leaft diminifhed, by the means I propofed ; I was fufficiently inclined not to delay their publication. Yet,
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