A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries ; and on the use of the ligature; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage, the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J. F. D. Jones.

  • Jones, J. F. D. (John Frederick Drake), approximately 1780-1813.
Date:
1810
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Credit: A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries ; and on the use of the ligature; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage, the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J. F. D. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    have never been wanting, and yet the records of our profession afford us but few and detached ob- servations on the suppression of hemorrhage, if we contrast the knowledge we possess with the impor- tance of the subject. Rash conjecture, and idle hypothesis, resting on partial observation, have usurped the place of that truth, which could only be discovered by a series of observations through every stage of a process, which, one would think, claimed the strictest investigation from the moment that surgery became an object of individual pursuit.' The author of this treatise has endeavoured to sup- ply that deficiency by a series of experiments on brutes. He has not laboured to prove from the structure, the functions, and the morbid changes, of their arteries, that Iris experiments afford an unerring guide, as to corresponding changes in the arteries of the human subject ; but he has diligently sought after such experiments of eminent physiologists or surgeons as would add weight to his own, and especially after such ob- servations, made on the human subject, as cor- responded with the results of his experiments.