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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    *» [ 27 '] next be applied above it, and upon turning the fkrew C, the fciatic nerve is prefled by B againft the edge of the fciatic notch, and the crural nerve againft the os femoris, to any degree that is necelTary. Figure II. reprcfents the inftrument ad- jufted to the thigh. And Figure III. a fmaller comprelTor, fuited to the arm. As all the nerves, which give fenfation to the arm, form a plexus in the axilla, clofe to the humeral artery, the pulfatioii of the latter will diredl the operator where to place the comprelTor. Although we are under an abfolute ne- ceflity of compreffing the crural artery along with the nerve, there is not .the fame neceflity of compreffing the crural vein ; becaufe the latter is the moft inter- nal of the three. So that, with attention, the comprefs may be kept fo much towards the outfide of the thigh, as to bear upon the nerve without touching the vein.