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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    [ 2-9 ] tlie compreffion half an hour, I loft all' fehlation and power of motion below thei knee; but the thigh retained a conftderable 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- prefled by this inftrument. From which it is evident, that the compreflbr will not be able to diminifti the pain in amputations above the knee, in fuch a degree as be- low. . ' r I fpoke on the fubjedf to fome gentle- men of the faculty, who feemed equally pleafed and furprifed at the effedt ■ of the t experiments 1 had made, and thought they ought to be publiftied, as the fpeedieft way of afcertaining fo interefting a fadt. Being perfedlly convinced myfelf that the pain of many operations in furgery would be prevented, or at leaft diminiflied, by the means I propofed ; I was fufficiently inclined not to delay their publication. Yet,