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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    [ 41 ] A particular treatment, like that uled at Paris, might poffibly favour the union by the firft intention. Previous to Lithotomy, amputations, and all furgical operations of importance, except fuch as from the nature of the cafe require to be performed inftantly, or where the perfon is already much weakened, it is the practice at Paris, and, I believe, all over France, to make the patient undergo what is called a preparatory courfe ; which is proportioned to the perfon’s ftrength, and the feverity of the operation to be per- formed, and generally lafts ten days or a fortnight. ' If the patient is of a plethoric h^bit, he is blooded ; the reft of the courfe confifts of a few dofes of gentle purgatives, a warm bath every fecond'or third day, and a low cooling regimen. The principal effed expeded from this courfe, is to prevent the violence of the fymptomatic fever ; and, as far as I could judge, it had that efted. We