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

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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$.V- Of Wounds in Particular. _ j-s—-'/r : t ’^wywL 345 thus he proceeded for fomedays$ the wound hereby be¬ ing filled with flefh, this cicatrizing Unguent was ufed. R. Ol. RofSevi caftrat.an ftpTerebinth. V. Cer. Litharg. aur. an. y].Cerufs.^\\).Thur.^).fiat unguentum. Then the wound was walhed with Allome wine, and there was ufed unguent. de Calc.knd. above the wound was fprink- led a little powder of burnt Allome, by which remedies he was perfectly cured. Obf. 5 c. For eft. lib: 6. we read of a man who after Hiflory of a having walhed his Feet, with a Penknife ftudied to £ofthe^ fcrape off the callous or hard fubftance which grew un- foot, derthe foie of his Foot, with which Knife he cut the part, the wound not being great 5 but hereupon pre¬ sently followed a Spafm before proper medicines could be applied, whereof he prelently died. Dodon<eus cap. 71. Abdit. writes of a Citizen of Another of Florence, and many others who having received any the Toes' hurts here, within few days to have died : For upon here receiving a wound or ulcer efpecially in. old peo¬ ple, he found them to encreafe and Spread and grow of a livid colour, and the Cutis of the part to be filled with black Puftules, and then lofing its fenfe to grow livid and black, neither doth it leave its fpreading quality until it hath reached the bones themfelves and infe&ed them. And if any thing feem (harp, and you cut to pre¬ vent its fpreading,it ftill creeps further, thefe parts being far from the Fountain of heat, and the heat which is in them being weak, and the parts very well re- plenifhed with Nerves, the which being herewith infe¬ cted do eafily and fpeedily communicate of their hurts to other parts, whence it happens that thefe being touch¬ ed they do fend forth the fame fo as until the whole member be hereby milerably infedted. The fame acci¬ dent happened to a Patient of mine here in Norwich, an old Gentleman, of above feventy years of age, Y y dwelling$