A treatise of chirurgical operations ... With the bandages for each apparatus, and a description of the instruments ... Translated from the French ... Revis'd and corrected by Mr. St. André / [René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot].

  • Garengeot, René-Jacques Croissant de, 1688-1759
Date:
1723
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Credit: A treatise of chirurgical operations ... With the bandages for each apparatus, and a description of the instruments ... Translated from the French ... Revis'd and corrected by Mr. St. André / [René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are formed by the different Figure and Difpofition of thofe Veffels. Hence it is eafy to apprehend, that if the Parts appear to us different from each other, that Difference proceeds only from the various Difpofition of the Veffels of which they are compofed, and by a neceffary Confequence, that their different Difpofition occafions in each Part feveral Spaces and Pores of different Figures: from whence it ought to be inferred, that the nu¬ tritious Particles of the Blood, which are to be con¬ veyed into thofe Veffels, mull neceflarily be dif- pofed and moulded according to the Configuration of the Pores and Tubes of each Part. B y thofe Veffels I only mean elallick Fibers, either flefhy, nervous, or membranous, through which different Liquors pafs; and Health depends upon the Equilibrium between the Tubes and the Liquors contained in them. Wherefore a Difeafe eonfifts only in the Diforder of thofe Veffels, or in the Alteration of their Fluids. B y Fluids I only mean the Blood, which is compofed of feveral Principles, and appears to the Eye under the Form of two Subftances, the one red, and the other white. This latter Part of the Blood is the nutritious Juice : It ferves to maintain and repair the Parts. After thefe Explications, I think it will not be difficult to apprehend, that Nutrition, with Re- Ipeff to Wounds, is a continued and prolonged Generation of Fibers, either cut or lacerated, which can only be cffedled by that white, balfamick, and vilcous Part of the Blood, which we call the nu¬ tritious Juice, and is different in every Part, becaufc