An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden.

  • Soden, John Smith, 1780-1863.
Date:
1854
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Credit: An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    about it, some tliree, but others two fingers' bredth, of the length of half a foot, somewhat depressed and hollowed, whereby they might be the more easily put about the leg, more straitly at their ends, and a fino-er's distance each from other, which at the last he shoidd bind with fillets, Hke those wherewith women use to bind up their hair ; yet so that the binding might be more straight upon the wound; and that he would fill the cavity of the ham, and of the ancles with boulsters made of flax wrapped in linnen cloths; that he wotdd fortifie the sides of my legs with junks made of bents or little sticks, and lined with linnen cloths, stretched from my heel to my groin, and bound over in four places, so that the straight figure of the leg might scarcely be perverted by any force ; that he would gently and smoothly lift up my leg to an indifferent height; and lastly that he should arm it from the violence of external injuiries, by putting it in a box or case/'* After Pare got home, six ounces of blood were taken from his arm. For six days the wound was dressed with ungumtum rosatum, and the bandages occa- sionally moistened with oxycrate, or rose vinegar. For nine days he took only twelve stewed prunes, six morsels of bread, and a piat of sugared water daily. His bowels were kept open by cassia and rhubarb, and sometimes a suppository of Castile soap. Not- withstanding this spare diet he got fever on the eleventh day ; abcess formed, and loose scales of bone came away, partly, he thought, from the loose binding, * The Works of Ambrose ParC, translated by Johnsou, Lon- don, 1G78.
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