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Title: Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Park, Roswell,1852-1914
Subjects: Medicine History of Medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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e with a chizel (E), contrary to Hildanus, with good success. XIII is abasin tided with oxycrat, in which swims a bladder, which, being wet, must beapplied to the mutilated part. XIV are two swathe-bands wrapt together (F andG), whereof each hath two ends, to bind the arm, whereof the hand at the end iscut off. XV represents a foot that is sphacelated, which is taken off in the morti-fied part, near the sound part with a pair of pincers. The mortified part being re-moved, the rest of the putrefaction is consumed with red-hot irons until the patientfeels the force of the fire. After this two plagets are anointed with Hildanus, hisunguent Egyptiac, which are applied to the escar ; lastly, long plaisters (J) beinglaid upon it, the foot mutilated is bound with a wet band (A~) as far as the knee,as the hand is unto the middle of the arm. XVI are divers sorts of iron instru-ments and made red hot, both to consume the remainder of the putrefied part andare also fit to stop the flux of blood.
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Fig. 26.—Various Operations on the Arms and Lower Limbs. (From The Chyrurgeona Store-house, by Johannes Scultetus. 1C7J.) 186 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. of the entire central nervous system which had been givenup to this time was furnished by Vieussens. By the middle and latter portions of the seventeenthcentury most of the better physicians and surgeons hadeither assumed offices and positions in which they weresupported by the State, or were settled in permanent resi-dences, which was not the case with the mass of physiciansin the sixteenth century. As a result the reputation of theentire profession began to improve, while the unlimitedlicense and absolute freedom of practice prevailing duringthe Middle Ages were almost entirely done away with.By this time the clerical element had disappeared almostentirely from medical circles, or only dabbled in certainspecialties. The Thirty Years War was fatal to the su-premacy of the clergy in matters of public health. More-over, the increase of

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