Handout for Trauma Surgery in Early Modern Europe

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+ Scott Moore 2 years ago
I’m glad you got something out of this, Elaine. Don’t take me as the final expert, but please check my sources and any you may come across, especially if they are primary accounts from the years your are writing about.

I should clarify the alcohol as anesthesia myth. There seems to be first hand accounts of a glass of wine being given to the patient before some surgery and a glass of something after for 'rejuvenation'. The myth I encounter is getting your patient stinking drunk and I have not found evidence that supports that.
+ guest0c9fe6 2 years ago
This explodes a lot of myths that I have read. I will need to go back and change things in my manuscript. Things like administering a stiff drink to the person to dull the pain of surgery, etc.

Thank you for all the time you put in to this project and it was obviously a labor of love. Elaine Lyons Bach

Trauma Surgery in Early Modern Europe For Beau Monde and Hearts through History, July 30, 2008 Scott Moore Questions, complaints and corrections may be addressed to scott@phoom.com Created: July 19, 2008. Updated: Aug 1, 2008 Workshop Description: Separating fact from fiction, this presentation will provide some basic understanding of pre-anesthesia wound treatment 1500 – 1800 and recommendations for researching your own questions in the history of medicine. Not for the faint of stomach, topics will include myth busting about amputation and methods of treating cuts, stabs, arrow and gunshot removal, fractures and dislocations, and head trauma. “The course of illness was not often dramatically altered or shortened or terminated… surgery entailed weeks of daily wound care rather than dramatic interventions that characterize modern operative surgery”. - Mary E. Fissel, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Spring 2008 V82no1, page 14. “Why, just fifty years ago, they tho

+ Scott Moore, 2 years ago