A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • John Browne
Date:
1678
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Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    again. Ponzettus, lib. 6. cap. 32. de Fencno, writes, that hefaw a man, who had taken a drachm and a halfof Hellebore, to die prefently. Matthiolus, lib. 4. cap. 141. j I writes, that a prefent Poyfon being made out of the Juice *'»|I of white Hellebore, and Arrows or Shot being herein ma- | cerated and illinated, they do caule Ipeedy death to that M |] perfon wherein they are lodged, or in thofe Parts through I which they do pals. Thus have I (hewn you, that a venenate Mixture be- tac I ing made of any of thele, and Weapons made either of Wood or Iron macerated therein, and then lent into the 1 mufculous Parts, they do there Ipeedily Ihew their veno¬ se. j mous qualities 5 the which if they be not fpeedily fetched J out, they do leave their pernicious marks of Venome, I which does prove a perfed: deftroyer of the whole. And of I as daily experience does teach us, many peftiferous and k I venenate Mixtures are and have been of late invented ird and found out. And if Bullets or the like Inftruments be ml j herein dipped, tempered, and tinged, and (hot into any Mil I Part, occalion a Wound, although it be not adherent, A'| J yet in its quick palifage this Poyfon hath that fubtile, nim- mf j ble and peftiferous quality, that it does fpeedily creep from fl 1 the fmall Veffells to the greater, untill it hath got advan- (t I tage of the principall Parts 5 and having once got footing I therein, it Ipeedily does there exercile that furioulhels, j that it does contract the Life of man into a Irnall compals JI of warmth and heat. And hence let no man doubt, that Wounds thus made by Shot, or any other kinds of In- Iftruments which have power enough in them to receive j Poylbn, but that they may be made poylonous. And by I how much thele are made of very lubtile parts, by lo Jmuch the readier may they penetrate : and their malign ■Vapours being lent through the Veins, Nerves and Arte- Jjries, do at once infed both thenaturall, animall, and vi- Itall Faculties, in which conflict they do luffocate by their ■contrary preternaturall mixtures. As often therefore as N 2 any