Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell.

  • John Bell
Date:
1800
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Credit: Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ltantly into a lively adtion, while another has only a languid adtion, and enters into that action flowly, and at a long interval of time; the adtion of the one has ex- pired, before that of the other has begun. Such parts theretoredo not confpire and harmonize in their adtion, nor can they unite with each other; but they may live and thrive independent of each other : and perhaps it may happen in this way, that oppofite furfaces of Ikin or mufcle, may feem to be adhering firmly to the parts beneath them ; while, perhaps they adhere to each other only, and merely cover the cartilage or bone, without having any diredt connedtion with thofe parts. The bone we fee, (as in an old amputated limb), lives and thrives, is not limited in its new for- mation by the adhelion of furrounding parts, but grows out into a broad knob of callus or new bone. A griftle alfo, (as in an amputated or luxated joint), retains its pure and lubricated form. There are, no doubt, accidents both of the conftitu- tion and of the wound, which will prevent adhefion ; for if the patient be of a bad habit of body ; if he be lying in a foul hofpital, in the midft of putrid fores, and breathing a contagious air ; if he be ill of a fever* or flux, or any general difeafe ; then the properties of the body being lefs perfedt, his wound will not ad- here : or if the wound be foul, made with a poifoned weapon, or left with foreign bodies flicking in it, or if blood be pot. ed out into the cavity of the wround, (for blood in tins cafe is but a foreign body*), or if * It is not eafy for any one who is not an enthufiaft in the “ doc- trine of life in the blood,” to acknowledge all the very extraordi- nary concluhons which have been deduced from it.
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