A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • John Browne
Date:
1678
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Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. LXXV. Of Wounds of the Hand and Fingers. C> Ordering the admirable frame andftru&ure of the y hand being as the Inftrument of Inftruments, and its proper action is apprehenfion, and this made accord¬ ing to our will by its mufoles, we here ought to enquire into its Mufoles which are of two forts, fome guiding the motion of the whole hand, others only moving the fin¬ gers. In the whole, the Mufoles which are allowed to belong to the whole hand are accounted forty in num¬ ber, four of the Wrift, four of the Radius, three of the Palm of the hand, and twenty nine of the fingers. Of thefo there are nine inflefters, two bending the fore-fin¬ gers and foven the thumb 5 the extenders being twenty, fixteen extending the four fingers, in which number are included Lumbricales, and Interojfdi-, the other four do extend the thumb. Having given thus a brief di£ courfe of the Mufoles of the hand and its fingers, here we are to note, that ifany of its Tendons or Ligaments be wounded, that you drefs thefo in the fame manner as I have already fhown you to cure wounds of the Nerves and Tendons. If any of its Veins be cut flop the flux and cure it as you do wounds of the Veins and Arteries 3 and if only fome of its Mufoles be wounded cure thefe wounds as I have directed you in wounds happen¬ ing in the flefhy parts. 1 (hall conclude this with fome remarkable Hiflories. The Firflisof Foreft.fol. 17 6. cap. 37. where he writes of a young man who received a wound in the left hand tranfverfly made by a fword by his Brother, which wound part through the hollow of his hand even to his /
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