A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / By Samuel Sharpe.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / By Samuel Sharpe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any great Alteration, from which Time the iVlatter grows thicker and lefs ofFenfive ; and when the Boitom of the Wound fills up with little Granulations of Flefii, it diminiihes in its Quantity, and continues doing fo, till the Wound is quite fleinned over. The firfl; Stage of Healing, or the Dif- charge of Matter, is by Surgeons called Digejiion ; the Second, or the filling-up with Fleiii, Incarnation ; and the laft, or flcinning over. Cicatrisation, Thefe are the Tech- ' nical Terms chiefly in ufe, and are fully fuf- ficient to deicribe the 'State of Wounds, without the farther Subdivifions ufually found in Books. It is worth obferving, that the Lofs of any particular Part of the Body can only be repaired by the Fluids of that diftind: Part ; 'as in a broken Bone, the Callus is generated from the Ends of the Fradure, fo, in a Wound, is the Citatrix from the Circum- ference of the Skin only : Hence arifes the IVeeeffity of keeping the Surface even, either by Preflure or eating Medicines, that the Eminence of the Flefh may not refill the Fibres of the Skin in their Tendency to cover the Wound. This Eminence is com- pefed of little Points or Granulations called Fungus,