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AN ESSAY ON A NEW METHOD OF TREATING THE EFFUSION WHICH COLLECTS UNDER THE SCULL AFTER FRACTURES OF THE HEAD. By J. Deveze, Officer of Health, of the first class, in the French Armies. [From the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume IV"]. by Deveze, Dr. Jean (1753-1826?). French refugee from Haiti, known for his treatment of yellow fever during the 1793 Philadelphia epidemic. He used Bush Hill hospital to care for patients and hired trained nurses to help them - [1799].

by Deveze, Dr. Jean (1753-1826?). French refugee from Haiti, known for his treatment of yellow fever during the 1793 Philadelphia epidemic. He used Bush Hill hospital to care for patients and hired trained nurses to help them

AN ESSAY ON A NEW METHOD OF TREATING THE EFFUSION WHICH COLLECTS UNDER THE SCULL AFTER FRACTURES OF THE HEAD. By J. Deveze, Officer of Health, of the first class, in the French Armies. [From the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume IV"]. by Deveze, Dr. Jean (1753-1826?). French refugee from Haiti, known for his treatment of yellow fever during the 1793 Philadelphia epidemic. He used Bush Hill hospital to care for patients and hired trained nurses to help them - [1799].

AN ESSAY ON A NEW METHOD OF TREATING THE EFFUSION WHICH COLLECTS UNDER THE SCULL AFTER FRACTURES OF THE HEAD. By J. Deveze, Officer of Health, of the first class, in the French Armies. [From the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume IV"].

by Deveze, Dr. Jean (1753-1826?). French refugee from Haiti, known for his treatment of yellow fever during the 1793 Philadelphia epidemic. He used Bush Hill hospital to care for patients and hired trained nurses to help them

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[Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Thomas Dobson], [1799]., [1799].. Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9-1/8 inches wide. Unbound signatures from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 6 deckle-edged pages in all, with large uncut & untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 433 through 438. The edges are chipped and there is minor soiling and darkening to the margins. Very good. <p>Unbound sheets from volume 4 of the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society".<p>"When there is a collection of blood from a blow or fracture of the scull, all authors advise the trepan, in order to discharge the collected fluid; but the difficulty of ascertaining the part where it has accumulated, often makes frequent repetitions of the operation necessary before it is discovered. Mr. Mareschal, first surgeon to Louis XIV gives us an example of this, he trepanned a young lady twelve times before he found the effusion occasioned by a fracture of the parietal and temporal bones on the same side...." Dr. Deveze writes in the third paragraph. Deveze goes on: "In cases of accumulated blood between the scull and dura matter, the adhesion which unites them, is destroyed in the place occupied by the fluid..." He goes on to suggest that "In this case a single opening made in the scull on one of the points of effusion, is sufficient to give vent to the fluid, because the blood pressed on all sides by the action of the brain, quits the place it had collected in, and flows towards the part that offers passage...." According to an 1827 article in "The New-York Medical and Physical Journal", edited by John Francis, M.D. and John Beck, M.D., in a case where the above was ineffective "It occurred at this time to Mr. Deveze, that the leading symptom was owing to blood collected under one of the points of the fracture in the temporal region, as the effusions which had been formed under the other fractures had been evacuated in removing the dressings, he determined to adopt the method now recommended, of separating the adhesion between the skull and the dura matter in the direction of the fracture. He took a very flexible silver spatula, and pressing it towards the bone, bent it to take the form of the part upon which he acted. At length after having entered half an inch below the temporal scaly suture, the resistance suddenly ceased, and the instrument entered a hollow part; at the same time the blood flowed in great quantity."<p>The French physician Dr. Jean Deveze (1753-1826?), a refugee from Haiti, arrived in Philadelphia at the peak of the Yellow Epidemic which devastated the city in the Summer of 1793. Bush Hill, a Philadelphia hospital specializing in yellow fever, recognized Deveze's prior extensive experience treating patients afflicted with the disease in Santo Domingo and appointed him to head the hospital. Unlike Benjamin Rush, who advocated bloodletting, Deveze treated patients with quinine and stimulants while keeping them calm & comfortable and taking care of their hygienic needs.
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  • Keywords MEDICAL; MEDICINE; SURGERY; SCIENCE; AN ESSAY ON A NEW METHOD OF TREATING THE EFFUSION WHICH COLLECTS UNDER THE SCULL AFTER FRACTURES OF THE HEAD; DR. JEAN DEVEZE; FRENCH PHYSICIAN; REFUGEE FROM HAITI; SANTO DOMINGO; SKULL FRACTURE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDI