A treatise of wounds.

  • Wiseman, Richard, 1622?-1676
Date:
1672
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ——————— a OF Wounds in General. 109 _ §was torn up from the Coronal Suture to the Tem- saporal Mufcle onthe left fide, the Skull was bared i ‘between two and three Inches broad, he was led ill “Ico the next Barber-Chirurgeons, who cut the piece boff, and hang’d it up in his Shop; the next day | ithe poor fellow was brought to me, I caufed the i. ‘i/hair to be fhaved off from about the wound, and drei the Bone and Lipswith Linim. Arceswarm, i\iEmbrocated parts about cam ol Rof. & Chamemel. ‘land applyed Empl. é Bolo over the wound, and with ‘comprefs and bandage rouled up his head. He had been Let bloud the day before without confidera- i@tion of the great quantity which he had loft from this wound, I continued the former drefling to ithe Lips of the wound and Bone, untill they were it digefted well, in which time the edges of the Bone wilt Incarned round, the middle of the Bone I Rugined, wttoll whereby I difpofed a callas to put forth. After di. unl Beftion Ideterged with mund. Paracelf. and after |the callus grew up from the Bone, Idreft the part i with pledgets dipt ix fp, vin. preft them out drie cand applied them over the Bone, After deterfion | ah I dreft the wound with one of my Sarcotics men- Hl } tioned in the fourth Chapter of wounds in Gene- ral, and afterwards by Epuloticks as ung, Tutte, 9 &c. cicatrized the Lips of the wound even with yiiathe cals, as it rofe fromthe Bone, and as the | . (@ Bone fhel’d off here and there inthin Scales I Cica- ! wd trized the wound, aud about that time to diffofe wl it the better to do fo, he was purged fometimes, al Thus he was cured as 2 wound with lois of Sub- jftance, a troublefome and vexatious work to the § Patient and Chirurgeon, which might at firit have @ been cured by agglutination or witha lefs Cicatrsx, Gand have enjoyed its natural tegument at | lair, Sj ”