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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ ] • Other, the fciatlc nerve, runs extremefy deep among the mufcles, which would render their divifion at once painful and dangerous. In ail ampiitation of the arm, the ob- jection to cutting the nerves is ftill ftronger; for the artery below ^the arm-pit is en- tangled with a plexus of nerves, which it 'would be impoffible to ^ut \vithout dividing the artery alfo. I then thought my end might pofhbly be accomplifhed by compreflion j and was en- couraged in this idea, by having often felt that fenfation, which, I fuppofe, every body has felt fome time or other, when we fay the leg is fleeping; and which entirely pro- ceeds from comprelTmg the fciatic nerve by fitting in a particular pofition. In that ftate, the leg and foot are numbed, and rendered in fome meafure infenlible, and, at the fame time, our power of moving them is greatly impaired.. It is not till after we have flood up, or varied our pof- ture, fo as to remove the compreflion for a confiderable