An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden.

  • Soden, John Smith, 1780-1863.
Date:
1854
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Credit: An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden. 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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    which lay next them. Being ferried over,- as I was conveyed into the next house, my pain was mvich increased, wliilest lifted by the hands of divers persons, one while up, another down ; sometimes to the left side, other whiles to the right, with my whole body^ and all the parts thereof When at the length I was laid upon a bed, I was somewhat freed from the bitter- ness of my pain, and had time to wipe ofi the sweat which ran down over all my body. Then was .J dressed with such a medicin as the time and place would afford ; we composed it of the white of egg, wheat flour, soot of a chimney, and melted butter. For the rest, I entreated Hichard Hubert that he would handle me as if he knew me not, neither that, moved for love of me, he should remit anytliing of the severity of art, but chiefly, that he would stretch my foot straight out, and, if the wound were not suffi- ciently wide, that he would enlarge it with his incision knife, that so he might the more easily set the broken bones in their due place ; that he would with his fingers (whose judgment is far more certain than the best made instruments) search, whether the spKnters which were in the wound were quite severed from the bone, and therefore to be taken forth ; that he would with his hand press forth the bloud, and the clods of bloud which were in a great quantity concrete at the mouth of the wound ; that he woidd bind up and place my leg in that site and mannei: as he thought best; which is, that he would have three rowlers in a readiness, the first whereof he should cast directly upon the wound, so that he should begin his ligation at the wound ; also he should put splints