The present practice of surgery : containing the description, causes, and treatment of each complaint; together with the most approved methods of operating / by Robert White, M.D. and practitioner in surgery.

  • White, Robert, active 1786-1792.
Date:
1786
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Credit: The present practice of surgery : containing the description, causes, and treatment of each complaint; together with the most approved methods of operating / by Robert White, M.D. and practitioner in surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made balfam on lint, Goulard's faturnine water mixed with crumb of bread, or rags wetted there- with, are the molt proper applications. In wounds with lofs of fubftance, there is greater likelihood of inflammation, and much fubfequent difcharging; it will therefore be proper to attend ftrictly to the afpedt of the wound, and nature of the confti- tution. If a good matter appears, and granulations form freely, care muft be taken to check the fun- gus, &c. Vide Ulcers. Should the edges be pale, flat, or flabby, and the difcharge prove thin and fanious, pledgits dipped in decoction of bark, traumatic balfam, or tinfture of myrrh with honey of rofes, with invigo- rating poultices, lhould be exhibited externally, and the bark, &c. internally. Vide Ulcers and Gangrene. If fuch wounds are attended with great inflam- mation, ufe the antiphlogiftic remedies, let the part be laid in the moft relaxed and eafy pofture, and give opiates occafionally. Wounds. of the lymphatics will frequently yield much limpid difcharge, and are difficult to heal; if the falivary glands are injured, the ftream muft be diverted by paffing a feton, or making an opening into the mouth. Lint dipped into a folution of alum, camphorated vitriolic water, or Goulard, with proper comprefs and bandage, are moft ufeful. Great trouble has been experienced from wounding a lymphatic, on opening the cephalic vein in the arm,