Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston.

  • Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), -1786
Date:
1789
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    50/416 (page 34)
    Mam anus Sanctus was a pupil of Vigo* and famous in the pm- feflion, for his method of cutting for the Stone by a particular apparatus. He attributes the invention of this method to Johannes de Romanis, from whom he confeffes that he learnt it. Mari anus has alfo published feme other works, which are all in Gesner’s Collodion of Surgical Writers, but none of them, are worth attending to, except his treadle on the Stone. % Alphonstjs Ferrus was public profeffor of Surgery at Naples, and in 1534 was elected firft Phyliciau to Pope Paul III. He publiihed a trea- dle on Gun-fhot Wounds in three books, which is one of the firdt that appeared. Tills treatife, though full of judicious and ufeful precepts, is, by an inconceivable fatality, .very little known amongft us. Thofe who fliall take the trouble to read it, however, though ever fo well verfed in their profefllon, will not find their time mifemployed. There is one re- markable paffage in this work. Speaking of hemorrhages, he fays, 46 yet if the vefiTel opened, be of any fize, nothing but the ligature will fucceed ; in order to apply this, we make ufe of a crooked needle, 66 pointed at one end and perforated at the other ; this needle mu ft be 46 palled through the flefh and the thread left, with which, the veflel 46 that bleeds is to be tied. This method is always effectual, and ftops 46 the bleeding of the arteries.” Ferrus does not affume the difeovery of this method to himfelf; and indeed how is it polfible he fhould, fince we have feen that Albucasis, Vigo, and others before mentioned, had em- ployed it with fuccefs. Fie alfo wrote a treatife on the Ifchury produced by obliteration of the neck of the bladder, which contains feme curious details. His refleflions on founds, and the art of founding the bladder, are worthy of the firft Surgeons of the prefent age. He employed founds of different metals, and knew the ufe of bougies, for which he has given a formula. He has carried his improvements in this part of Surgery ftill farther, and has employed, for the purpofe of deftroying Caruncles in the Urethra, the Items of mallows, parfley, fennel, &c. and covered his bougies with deterfive or fuppurative ointments, according to the variety of his intentions* Bartho