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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    [ ] of the bones, which he added had fhaken his whole limb. This feems a little ■ ex- traordinary, as fiwing the bones is ufually the leaft painful part of amputations. . ^ Although I expected that the anafliamo- fing vefTels would carry on a certain degree of circulation notwithftanding the obftruc- tion of the- great trunk, yet I had no idea that it would have been fo ftrong as it was; for, on flackening the tourniquet, the arteries bled per faltum, though the comprelfmg in- ftriiment remained iti<full force on the cfu- ralartery. ' This trial had all the fiiccefs I expeded; there was evidently a moft remarkable di- minution of pain,, particularly during the firft incifions through the fkin^and mufcles, which are generally by far the moft fevere parts of the operation. And I am convinced that what pain the patient felt, was chiefly owing to fome 'fraall*branches of the lum- bar nerves which extend below the knee^ and were not comprefled. F I gave