The hospital surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. Also, a discourse on discover'd bones; and a way to dress, after trepanning, with a new instrument invented by the author ... / [Augustin Belloste].
- Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730
- Date:
- 1701
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The hospital surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. Also, a discourse on discover'd bones; and a way to dress, after trepanning, with a new instrument invented by the author ... / [Augustin Belloste]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ply’d by Nature. This may further appear al- fo by what follows, being a very ftrange thing that happen’d at Pignerol.’ M. De Ig Place, Captain in the Regiment of Barrois, was Wounded with a Bullet at the Battel of Marfeils, that entred at the middle and hinder Part of the Fore-arm, and came Out at the lower and fore-part of the fame, breaking the Cubitus in its paflage. He was dreft by M. Malinas , a Surgeon-Major belonging to the Army in Italy, and Mafter Surgeon of Lyon, very skilful in his Imployment. This Wound was attended with fome trou- blefom Accidents: For together with a Conti- aual Fever, an Abfce{s was form’d by a Colle- étion of Matter, which was extended over al] the Arm and Fore-4rm: But as they were pre- paring to make an Opening, the wounded Per- fon was {eiz’d with a great Loofnefs, which all of a fudden put an End to that Tumor, and re- ftor’d the Arm and Fore- Ary to their natural State. This unexpected Accident, being fol- lowed by fo furprizing an ‘Effeét, oblig’d his Surgeon to caufe take a view of that, which the Patient had voided, and it was found to be the very Matter of the Abfcefs, without any thing elfe, fave fome little Excrement, which Femain’d altogethr unmix’d therewith : More- Over, according as new Matter was gathered in the fame Places, it was fil] voided again by O Stool,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30525536_0331.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
