A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Extremities are fhut up by the coagulatec Blood. The Haemorrhage being flopp’d, the next Occurrence in about twenty-four Hours is a thin ferous Difcharge, and a Day or twc after an Increafe of it, tho’ fomewhat thicken¬ ed, and ftinking. In this State it continues two or three Days without any great Altera¬ tion, and from that time the Matter grows thicker and lefs offenfive, and when the Bot¬ tom of the Wound fills up with little Granu¬ lations of Flefh, it diminifhes in its Quantity, ’ and continues doing fo till the Wound is quite skinn’d over. The firfl Stage of Healing, or the Difcharge of Matter, is by Surgeons call’d Digejlion; the Second, or the filling-up with Flefh, In* carnation; and the laft, or skinning-over, Ci¬ catrization. Thefe are the Technical Term! chiefly in ufe, and are fully fufficient to de* fcribe the State of Wounds without the farthe) Subdivifions ufually found in Books. * It is worth obferving, that the Lofs of any particular Part of the Body can only be re¬ pair’d by the Fluids of that diftind: Part; and as in a broken Bone the Callus is generated fron the Ends of the Fradure, fo in a Wound i the Cicatrix from the Circumference of th< Skin only: Hence arifes the Neceflity of keep inj
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