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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    penetrate the Joint, by Celfus opinion muft of necefli- ty be allowed dangerous, for hereby the moifture which kept between the joints is let out, the which being diP patched, an excrementitious humour doth fall thereinto, being a thin ichorous fubftance much refembling that of Meltcerzs according to his opinion. As touching its cure, if it be pun&ured, drefs this wound as I have already fhown in puncture of the Nerves. Keep the parts from cold and defend them from pain, for cold hardneth the skin, hindereth fup- puration, and doth extinguifh the native heat as Hipp. writes. If the wound be made by incifion, and this be large, ftitch it up, hereby not touching any of the mem¬ branous or tendinous parts 5 leaving a fmall orifice in the depending part thereof, for the better difcharge of the matter. If the wound penetrates not the cavity of the juncture, drefs this with Lin i men turn Arc£i0 ad¬ ding hereto a little fine powder of Frankincenfe, Dra- gons-blood. Myrrh and Aloes 3 and to an ounce of the former Liniment add a dram of the laid powders 5 above which may be applied an anodyne Empl. or Cataplafm made of fl. Cham. Melilot. Rojar. rubr. Sambttci, farin. Fabar. Hord. and the like 5 to which may be added fome milk with a little Ol. Myrtin. Rofar. & parum Cro- c/, applying thefe, and all your other medicines which are to be ufed, a&ually hot. If the wound doth pene¬ trate the Joint, you are by Aquapendens’s advice to ap¬ ply a very drying medicine: thefe parts being naturally very dry, and therefore requiring drying medicines: they being alfb void of fenfe and feeling, and a great plenty of matter falling herein, ought and do requeft very drying medicines. And for this ufe Balfam. Peru¬ vian. Liniment. Arccei, Balfam. nojlr. Balfam. Luca- tell, cum Spir. Terebinth, are very excellent medicines here5 always obferving to keep every member in its due pofition; and when you fee the wound doth begin to Y y 2 unite. Cure. *