New progress of surgery in France, or, Phenomena in the animal kingdom : published by command of the French government / translated from the French of Imbert Delonnes, by T. Chavernac ; embellished with very curious plates by W. Nutter.

  • Imbert-Delonnes, Ange Bernard, 1745-1820.
Date:
1801
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Credit: New progress of surgery in France, or, Phenomena in the animal kingdom : published by command of the French government / translated from the French of Imbert Delonnes, by T. Chavernac ; embellished with very curious plates by W. Nutter. 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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    suppuration of the whole wound, caused them to cease on the tenth day. I now found myself capacitated to suppress ail the ligatures. The better to succeed, I used a smallblunted silver hook: with this kind of an erigna which I directed from downwards above, I seized the threads, separated them from the pedicle by pulling gently towards me, and then cut them off with curved scissars. On the same'day I retrenched some small portions of the lips of the wound that were neighbouring to the pedicle, and which extending too far, and being rather hard, would have impeded the completion of the cure. From that time the wound most conspicuously began to cicatrize. The patient, who got out of his bed at the expiration of a month, was able to walk on the fortieth day, and his cure was finally completed on the sixtieth. As the want of food is almost always expressed by the desire of the patient, you need not fear to allow him a small quantity j if he is free from fever or inflammation : his prevailing weakness is the consequence of the waste inseparable from great operations. This waste is to be supplied by degrees, and with extreme caution: in those first moments especially laborious digestions are to be dreaded s they certainly would be productive of serious accidents such as fevers, congestions, abscesses, &c. It would be equally dangerous to leave the patient to be a prey to the real want of nourishment: he then would experience the inverse accidents, such as heated intes- tines, inanition-fever, marasmus, &c. By means of consulting the pulse, we are taught how to keep that nice medium in chirurgical as well as internal diseases. The pulsations, when weak and slow, claim aliments easily to be digested, such as broth, with the grease carefully taken off, to which may be added soon after, a small quantity of rice flower, even of rice, vermicelli, and other ingre- dients of the like nature. 6
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