A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700.
Date:
1678
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. LXXI. Of Wounds of the Shoulder. AMongft the Joints may be reckoned the Shoulders, Arms, Cubit, Wrift, Fingers, Thigh, Leg, and Foot. We begin firffc with the Scapula sfwhere we may fee the Scapula moved by four Mufcles, Serratus minor fubftrated to the Pectoral Mufcle from the four upper ribbs 5 Trapezius or Cucullaris^ the which does carry the refemblance of a Monks-hood, Rhomboides^ being a large, broad, and fquare mufole, and Levator Patienti<e. Ha- ving given you the brief Anatomy of this part, as to the cure of thefe being wounded, by reafon of the many Tendons implanted, here muft neceilarily be ufed care and induftry, for thefe parts are cold, and hence cold be¬ ing their greateft enemy you are to defend them from it. As to the Mufcles being wounded, you are firft to pro¬ vide againft all ill fymptomes by breathing of a Vein and a good order of diet, and by Catharticks. And as touch¬ ing the wounded part, here are we firft to ftop the flux, then to bring the wound to a fair digeftion by Turpen¬ tine, Bafilicon, the Yolks of Eggs, Saffron, and the like, then mundefie with honey ofRofes, Juice of Smallage,&c’ Fill up with incarnatives, as Aureum, Fujcnm, Balfam. Luc at ell. Arc <e.2nd skin either with Diapalma, or DeCic- cativum Ruhr urn. If ftitching be here required, you are here to take deep ftitches, and fow faft, left through the weight of the arm the wound may fly open again, hereby ftudying the keeping ofevery Nerve or Tendon untouched } over this ftitched part may you apply fome of the former agglutinative powders. And if you think it neceflary, put in a Tent at the bottom of the wound U u for