An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper].

  • William Cowper
Date:
1699
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Credit: An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In order to wipe off this Prejudice, (as far as Ar¬ gument will go in this Matter ;) it may be affirm’d, that Laryngotomy is in great danger of Suffocation, allowable, and the Wound curable: for that, (to argue k fortiori) when the Trachea has been Cut through, the Parts have been joyn’d together, and the Wound cured. Indeed, the Encyclopedia Chirurgica (Lib, z. cap. 4 J has theie words, §>ue (vulnera foil. Afpere Arterie) ut plurimtm periculo [unr plenijfima ; prefert im ft vafa Ju¬ gular! a Jimul fint difciffa, aut ipfa ArUria integre per tranfverfum dijfecJa; 'qux nulla Arte denuo conne&e- tur, fed Machine humane totalem affert deftrutti- onem. But, in oppofition to this Voluminous Authority, I beg leave to prelent you, with the following Obfer- vation, lent me by an Ingenious C^iirurgeon, Mr. John Kun of Corntval, who perform’d the Cure, VTou have it under his own Hand. Nicholas Hohh, of St. Enodor in Cormval, aged Sixty three or thereabout, was lome time in March 1696. at a diftance from any Houfe fct on by Ruffians, who firft by a Blow on the Occiput knockt him to the Ground ; then tranfe&ed the trachea fomewhat beneath the Pomum Adami, together with feveral of the adjacent Mufcles, and fome large Blood-Veflels; from which he loft a very great quantity of Blood, leen afterwards lying or. the Ground The Ruffians having Robb’d him, and thinking him either dead, or paft all recovery, left him. After lome time the Wounded Man recovers lb much Senle and Strength as to thruft his Neckcloth into the large and gaping Wound, and by degrees to • craul Home to his own Houfe, not far from the Scene of this Tragedy. ' In
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