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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    [ 40 ]' I It is impoffibie to lay, before the trial is made, what length of time it will require to render the infenfihility complete ; but I imagine that, after an hour, very little pain will-be Offered from the operation. When the veins become turgid, it will perhaps be right to-open one with a lancet, left any of them ftioiild burft. No danger need be apprehended from the lofs of blood this will occafton; becaufe the tourniquet will prevent- any from flowing, that would not at any rate have been loft on the firft in- cifion.’' • - i . The circulation is never entirely ftopt by the tourniquet, fo that there will be no danger of any bad confequence, from its being continued tight the time neceflary for preventing, or greatly diminifhing, the pain of the operation. Whatever hap- pens to the part of the limb that is to be cut off, is of no confequence. - As the keeping the tourniquet tight upon the thigh for fo long a time, though at- tended with no danger, muft give more uneafmefs