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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    [ 3' ] an hour, liis limb became To infenfible that rubbing pretty Imartly with the finger upon the ulcer gave no pain. Next morning the patient being carried to the operation room, I began the com- preflion of the nerves at a quarter before eleven o’clock. The numbnefs of the limb followed at the ufual time. At a quarter before twelve, I gave him one grain of opium, to diminifh the fmart- ing of the wound after the operation, when the compreflion fhould be taken off. A few minutes after twelve, the tourniquet was applied, and the amputation performed by Mr. Hunter, at the ufual place below the knee. At the clr<*ular incifion through the fkin, the patient did not cry out, change a mufcle of his face, or fhew any fymptom of pain. At the fubfequent parts of the operation, particularly during the fawing of the bones, he fhewed marks of uneafmefs in his coun- tenance, but did not cry out. As