Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator].

  • Matthäus Gottfried Purmann
Date:
1706
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Credit: Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    you bind it up. This being done, take the White of an Egg well mixed with Allum, in which wet your Left Thumb three or lour times, and with it prefs the Hole and Lips of the Incifion together, and then put the Fungus Pulverutentus or Fuz-ball upon it, about the bignefsof a Nutmeg, firewing my Blood-flopping Powder over it, and upon that lay a Plaifler of Maffick fpread very thick upon Leather, as large as you think conve¬ nient : Which muff be done with all imaginable Neatnefs and Celerity. On this Plaifler firft put a fmall round Linen Bolfler, and over that ,t wo or three more, one flill broader than the other, firft juft wetted in Vi¬ negar in which Tragacantha had been difiblved; for thefe will not only fill up the hollow places of the Temple, but keep the Blood-flopping Pow¬ der clofer upon the Artery, which will forward its healing, and prevent its fwelling, and breaking out again, the only thing to be feared in this Operation. This being done, take an indifferent long Roller about two Inches broad, which wind round the Front and Head • after that turn your Roller over on the other fide by the end, which end give your Man to hold, and puli the long end under the Chin near the Neck, then over the Head, and turn it always over that end which your Man holds, when you come to it, and lo continue winding it about, till the Place is well covered, becaufe this binding contributes much to its healing. «ne ieConu * This Bandage ought to continue three or four Days without medling Dreffing. with it, and you fhould exhort the Patient to keep very flill and quiet, and eat nothing but what is of eafie Digeflion. After three or four Days un¬ do your Ligature, wet the Bolfler again in the Mixture above-mentioned, apply it as before, and tie the Roller round it, but not fo hard as at firfl. Then let it continue fo bound up four days more, and by that time you will have no Caufe to fear its breaking out or bleeding any more; for you may fee it healed up. This is the way I have always pra&ifed, and with very good Succefs. In the Camp I have often made ufe of a thick piece of Money, half a Musket-Bullet, or the half Shell of a Walnut, and laid that upon the Fuz-ball, and over that the Plaifler, and fometimes the Plaifler firfl, and the Walnut-fhell, Bullet, or Piece of Money upon that, according as they fitted beft. All which is done to prevent the bleeding, and to prefs and clofe the opened Artery together, to promote its healing. In February 1686. I opened the Temporal Artery on the left fide, of 4 a Hiftory. ^0^je ]y[an 0f great Quality, whom I have no Permiflion to name, who lives on the other fide of the Olaw; he was extremely troubled with a continual Head-ach above a Quarter of a Year together. This Operation was exactly performed in the prefence of Dr. Tielijh and Dr* Burgs, who advifed it, and the Nobleman had eafe for about a Fortnights time ; but then the Diflemper returned again, fo that the Operation fig'nified nothing at all; and the fame Pain continued as formerly, till Leeches were ap¬ plied, and afterward the Moxa, which freed him from that Infirmity for about half a Year, but then it returned again. This Example I thought fit to recite in this Chapter, to (hew, That this Operation is not always to be re¬ lied upon, tho5 fome Men are pleafed to extol it in the higheft Degree, efpecially if there be any Malignity in the Cafe; for tho’ the Operation is as well performed as the Chirurgeon or Patient can defire, yet it does not always anfwer Expectation ; which I affirm from Experience and well- grounded Truth. CHAR