A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London.

  • James Moore
Date:
1784
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Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >3 ] fion of the fibres of the human body, which is requifite in furgical operations. An ob- vious means of lulling and diminifhing this was early tried by giving the patient ano- dynes internally, fome time before he un- derwent an operation. Opium is the moft powerful of this clafs of drugs, and a mo- derate dofe is highly expedient to abate the fmarting of the wound after an operation, is over, and to induce fleep; but the ftrongefi: dofe we dare venture to give, has little or no effect: in mitigating the fulferings of the par- tient during the operation. The moft effential improvements that can be made in furgery are unqueftionably tliofe which render operations fafer, and diminifti the danger of the patient’s life. But what can diminifti the acutenefs of the pain with- out increafing the danger, is alfo an im- provement very much to be wifhed. Some people fay, what fignifies a few minutes pain •,—but it is not thofe who think them- felvei under the immediate neceflity of un- dergoing