A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1784
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Credit: A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery / by James Moore, member of the Surgeons Company of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The previous knowledge, therefore, that by this method his pain will be greatly mi- tigated, will contribute to prevent all that agitation of mind and feverifhnefs which O ^ fo violent an impreffion occafions ; and of courfe render every furgical operation, in which compreffion of the nerves can be ufed, lefs dangerous. It is not impoffibk, but that the locked jaw, when that dreadful fymptom arifes from a wound in any of the extremities, may be cured by compreffing the nerve between the injured part and the brain. Some people may imagine, that I ought to have delayed this publication till the ef- fects of compreffing the nerves could be fully afeertained, by a number and variety of experiments; but it is principally be- caufe I think a number and variety of experiments neceffary, that I have ventured to lay all my ideas on the fubjedl, crude as they are, before the Public, without any farther delay; in which I am confirmed by what has happened fince the operation.