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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    CHAP. III. Of Judgments and Prefages of Wounds. WE arrive now to the Healthfull or Lethall Sym^ ptoms of Wounds, wherein the Chirurgeon fhould not only appear pbut And* as it is one of his fair Graces and Omamentsto know welf and underftand what Wounds are incurable : fo ought it alfo to be his greateft reafon and prudence not to under¬ take fuch, as he yufily.muft acknowledge he hath no Au¬ thority or encouragement from Art to be concerned with 2 and were tliefe much pradifed, the Art of Chirurgery would not fall to that low degree as it appears now in. To know the events of Wounds, and to prefage the good or bad tidings of the Patient wounded,' is a thing abfolutely neceflary for the Chirurgeon to underftand 5 for in this cafe does the life of Man very oft confift and depend. The Prognoftick figns* of thefe are taken ei¬ ther from the fubftance, ufe, and adion of any part 5 or from the proper eflence of its dilpofition or efied : thus Galen lib. 4 Therapeutic, does declare, that large and great Wounds bring ofttimes much danger with them. Wounds made by three fquared Weapons are alfo dan¬ gerous, considering either the Excellency of the part af- fiided, or the greatnels. of the affed, or the form and fhape of the Inftrument affiiding. and caufing the Wound. Wounds received in the Head, or Thorax, or pene¬ trating the Peritoneum do bring danger with them, efpe- eially if any of the inward parts be Wounded.- Q 3, General Pre-; fages of Wounds. Of tfie Head i and Thorax. . Suck