Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. I. Of generals. Of procuring adhesion. Of wounded arteries. Of gunshot wounds. Of the medical treatment of wounds. II. Of particulars. Of wounds of the breast. Of wounds of the belly. Of wounds of the head. Of wounds of the throat. III. Of dangerous wounds of the limbs. Of the question of amputation ... / [John Bell].

  • Bell, John, 1763-1820
Date:
1795
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Credit: Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. I. Of generals. Of procuring adhesion. Of wounded arteries. Of gunshot wounds. Of the medical treatment of wounds. II. Of particulars. Of wounds of the breast. Of wounds of the belly. Of wounds of the head. Of wounds of the throat. III. Of dangerous wounds of the limbs. Of the question of amputation ... / [John Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the humours of the eye, or as with the interefting ex- periment of the fafe and eafy transfufion of the blood, that the extravagance of its inventors ruined the in- vention, and took away all hopes of profiting by it. Burhius and Kirkringius pretended to be pofleffed of particular medicines by which they could reftore the eye, after it had been burft or cut open: and Taylor, Woolhoufe, and others, pretended to cure the blind- nels of old age, by extraéting the muddy humours of the eye, and replacing them with frefh tranfparent humours, by which the fight became as clear and fine, asin the youngeft perfon *. Many * Kirkringius tells his ftory in the following lamentable terms: That the King of Denmark who wasas fkilful in fciences, as clear in governing his realms, one day when he was reading a curious book upon glafs-making, written by Andreas Frifius, afked his Phyfician, Burhius, who was ftand- ing by, whether this ftory that the author told in his preface could be true, about cutting the eye open, and letting out the humours, and reftoring it a- gain? “O!” fays Burhius ** that Theodorus Kirkringius, mentioned there “¢ fo honourably, is one of the pooreft of my fcholars in this art.” Kirkrin- gius in revenge tells the whole ftory; how he had heard of Burhius being poffeffed of this art; how he had withed to afk the fecret ; and how he wag afhamed to propofe buying it with money from a gentleman like Burhi- us; how he ftudicd and laboured to find it out; and how he fucceeded ‘without any obligation to this fame Burhius. ‘* Hoc fcio, et hic profiteor ** me nullo horum modorum ogulos reftituere ; reftituere tamen alia pror. * fus ratione, aliifque a me folo inventis viis addo; nec facere me dif- ** tinctionem inter albos et nigros, fed quolibet oblato animali, &c.” «It $* matters nothing tome whether the eyes be black, brown, or grey, + bring me what animal you pleafe, I fhall cut the eyes open, fqueeze out ** ali the humors, give him back to you as blind as a mole, and yet reftore “* his eyefight in a very little while: I have done it often for fun, and have ** done it three times on the fame dog.” Now, this is what Burhiue | could 2