A treatise of wounds.

  • Wiseman, Richard, 1622?-1676
Date:
1672
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Credit: A treatise of wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    io Was happily cured in feven or eight days. This was .) truly performed by the Balfam of his bloud, I nei- hel ther bleeding nor purging him in the time of his | » ho Cure or after. ie A perfon wounded in the in-fide of the Arm, the Obferv, 3. a fword pafling over the joynt, and through the A Wourd =] j out-fide of the Arm, he was firftdreft bya Chi- imthearm. .,@ furgeon near the place where he was hurt , he bled | 1 much, The next day I opened the wound in the | _f prefence of Dr. 7.C. one of the Kings Phyficians, t Tfound the wound Tented at both Orifices, the , Arm fwelled, and a little difturbed, as wouhds in @ that place are fubjectto be, when the blond is fhut “=f in by Tents, and not dreft rationally by refrigerants 1 and aftringents, and good Bandage. The {welling “4 mott between the two orifices, and was from bloud © Choak’d inthe part, which was now more ftraitned i “4 from the influx of humors, fo not likely to yield “to other than fuppuration, yet we foment the > wounded parts with difcutients and diffolvents, and la Keep both the orifices open with {mall Tents dipt HT inthe common digeftive,and Embrocated about the 8 wound with Ol, Rof. @ Gutt. aliquot Aceti, and a 1 overall my Empl, é¢ Bolo, rouled it up? the third ni (| drefiing there appeared bloud from that orifice in |B i’ the in-fide of the arm, whichI fill’d with Precipi- | i tate anda doffil upon it, then dreftthe parts up as i {Us before, This time I acquainted the Patient with a my thoughts of opening the {welled part, between 'f the rwo apertions . there being no likelihood the ) Matter there could difcharge it felf by either of whi thefe openings, yet it was not fafeto heal them up, () wherefore 1 propofed the opening of that tumor i Dy alittle Cauftick, after aday or two D.C. was acquainted mI