Volume 1

Surgical and physiological essays / By John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Surgical and physiological essays / By John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Objervations on the ill Confequences, fometimed Succeeding to Venajectionn. , _ I think it very probable, that thefe difeafes would lefs frequently happen, did not the fituation of the veins, ufually opened, contri< bute to their occurrence. The common offi - ment of the arm, that its motion becomes al- moft inevitable. Unlefs, the orifice made by: the lancet, has been attentively clofed; the effect of this motion, will be, to feparate the prevent their union by the firft intentions Some-flight degree of inflammation will en- conttitution of the patient be irritable, the in- flammation will extend itfelf; altho’ it may integuments : or perhaps, it may be tranf- mitted to that part, which has fuftained moft injury