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.

  • Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700.
Date:
1678
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    A-nother. potion. pigcftive. Unguent. Of Wounds in Pdvticuldr. be removed; hence followed a Fever, no medicines ta- kin» place, although fix Chirurgeons were in confuta¬ tion concerned herein with a Phyfician. By became reftlefs, the Fever encreafing upon him. In his Foot and whole Leg did a gangrene anfe the which not being to be cured, and he being fo weak that amputati¬ on could not fafely be made, died of this fmall wound. He hath another alfo of one who was wounded in his right Foot, fo as the whole Foot was cut off about t e Malleolus. To the cure of which Carpus being deputed the blood he fuppretled with the white of an Egg and a reftriftive powder. And as for affwaging the pain, which was vehement, and for the prohibiting the Spafm, he a- nointed the whole Leg with hot oyl of Rofes, and the Inguens with the fame. Upon his thigh was applied a a defenfative. In the fecond and third vifits he applie two pledgets dipt in Saliva, and fprinkled with his re- ftrifiwe powder, which were applied to the cut Veins and Arteries. And above thele two other bowlders dipt in the oyl of Hyperic. cum gum. then he rowled up the part with convenient ligature, ordering tie atient a thin diet. And for his Fever was prefcnbed this. R Sy rtip. End. gj. Mel. Rofar. P- Aqu. Endw. C- Jor. an. £). mi fie. The next dreffing being the fifth d.,y the pledgets were armed with Vnguent. ex Cera, Ter, bJh. ol. Rofar. Mafiuh. Then no & preeparat. then was admimftred aClyfter. T was the' wound dreffed with this Digeftive * Tere¬ binth. Mel. Rofar. fill). Farsn.Hord. h). Myrrh. ^ cocoll. an. p. cum vitello ovi fiat unguent. Alterwards he received a more thick diet. Then was the wound vvafht with Malvatick wine,and after its thus being wafil ed was it thus drelled with the pledgets armed with this following. RTerebinth. fm). Ol. MyrUn |l). Cer-™™!fi an Kh Sang. Dracon. 3VJ. ihur. Mafitch. an. tM-fi* Vnguent. Upon the pledgets wasfpread B.fduon. And