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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![s L 46 ] It cannot be imagined, that I coniider the few experiments I have had it in my power to make, or the fingle trial at St. George’s hofpital, as decifive ; but I flatter myfelf they are fuffiqjent to. excite a very thorough inveftigation; and I am convinced, that whatever farther trials I or my friends could make, would be objected to, as lefs « fatisfadtory, than thole which will be made by impartial men of the profeflion all over the kingdom. I have therefore related what firft led me to the idea that pain would be prevented or diminifhed by a continued compreffion of the nerves ; I have ftated the experiments I made on myfelf, and their effects ; all I can know at this moment with certainty is, that compreffion deprived my own limbs, in a very great degree, of fenfibility and mo¬ tion, without leaving any inconveniency after the compreffion was removed. From this I concluded, that it would greatly diminifh, if not intirely pre¬ vent, the pain in feyeral furgical opera¬ tions j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792897_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
