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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

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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$MINIS tae SE Chirurgical Inftitutions : in need of his help as we do of Water or Fire, woo av7iEiG. | | eer. And for this reafon was it, that the Ancients taught § | their Scholars this Art of Chirurgeéty in theit Schools, from | whence alfo they learned their firft rudiments and Infti-} | tutions. And fince my prefent task wholly relates to Wounds, I fhall divide them into general and particular Difcour- fes. To thefé alfo have I adjoyned Gun-fhot Wounds, | and a particular diftourfé of all kinds of Wounds of the | Head, thence accompanying this Treatife with Wounds in | partitular, (viz.) fach as in their order may be faid to fall from thence to the Foot. And as every of thefe do carry | with them many differences, forms, fhapes, and habits, 1t j fhall be my tefett endeavour to acquaint the Young Chi- | Ree “ae YS NR NI SY; NY WISN NINOS SM SI YG z TS See: Bee ee UY eet eS: |) Te rutgion, how to provide and arm himfelf againft thefe, and with what neceflary Inftruments he may perform this | task, and to conguer and cure the direfull Symptoms which | attend many Wounds, which may infir@ or accompany fome | parts of the Body. And that I may place him in his right | Tra@, which may condu& him to the true and well ma- nagement of thefe: thefe four things will neceffarily fall | MATA, w/ WY, MINS eS under our Confideration, being very proper engins in their | places to be ufed in Wounds, and thefe are Ligatures, Me- ) dicines, Bolfters and Pledgets, of each of which a parti- i cular refpec is to be had, for they all require a right Order | in their applications, both as touching their long or fhort | continuance at the part, a flight pafling by of which, doth } very often prove detrimental}. Ligatnre And firft as touching Ligature, of this there are propofed Soci ‘WO ewo contrary Species, the one to be made more ftrict, whilft | the other may be made more loofé. And thefe two have di- verfity of parts allowed them,fome parts bemg properly faidto. | e thick, and others called thin or rare. That partis accoun- | ted thick which ts covered both with Bo/ffers and Rowlers, | thefe appointed both for keeping the part ‘warm, and alfo for making it more firm: that called or id to be rare or | loofe, | SUNS ST NL NV a ee d gS INIT, ¥, \/ v's “A oF, VAM/AYAGAY, LSININIININI NS Vy (SIM AY SILI, > = . _ ———— 7 —_ -$