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An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds, and strangulated hernia / By Benjamin Travers.

  • Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds, and strangulated hernia / By Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seigneur, et Jacques Guillemeau, chirurgien du roy et juré a Paris, hommes scavans, et bien experimentés a la chirurgie, lequel avoit rech un coup depée tout au travers du corps, dont par plusieurs jours jetta la sang par la bouche et siege en assez grande quantité, qui denotoit les intestines étre of- fensés. ‘Toutesfois en quinze ou vingt jours il fut guery.*”’ | Wiseman relates a story of a man run through with a rapier entering inthe nght hy- pochondrium, and passing out at the back. On the following day his skin was hot, and his pulse a little disturbed, but he recovered without any symptoms denoting wounded viscera. ‘‘ Thus,’ says Wiseman, “‘it fre- quently happeneth that a sword passeth through the body without wounding any considerable part.’+ The same conclusion has been made by others where the accident was attended with only a slight degree of * (Euvres de Paré. De plaies du ventre, liv. 10, cap, 35. + Wiseman’s Surgery, P. 371.