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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    [36] knee. But perhaps, applying the common tourniquet, and keeping it tight for a quaf- ter of 'an hour, or twenty -minutes, before tile operation, v/ould fupply this defed:, and blunt, in fome degree, the fcnfibility thqfe branches produce in amputations immedi- ately below the knee. This, however, is an objed of little importance,^ as when the great trunks of the fciatic and crural nerves have been duly compreffed for a .proper time, the degree of fenfibility which the twigs above- mentioned convey, cannot be great. On removing the comprelTor after am- putations, the patient will no doubt be ex- pofed to the fame degree of fmarting from the wound, that is ufual when the operation has been performed in the common way. All I originally expeded from the compref- fmg inftrument was, a prevention or great diminution of pain during operations. But I have fince entertained a notion, that even the fmarting of the wound after amputa- tions of the leg would be. greatly lelTened, by applying the termination of the com- prelTorB upon the fciatic nerve, and mak- * V’jde Fig. I. of the Plate,