A
T R E A T I S E
OF
Wounds, Ulcers, and Sutures.
C H A P. I.
Of Sutures.
Sutures or Stitches are made only in recent, and as yet bleeding Wounds, when they cannot be re-united by Bandage, as are the transverse; provided there be no Contusion, nor loss of Substance, nor great Hæmorrhages, as also that the Wounds were not made by the biting of venomous Beasts, that there be no violent Inflammations, and that the Bones are not laid open; because generally 'tis necessary to cause 'em to be exfoliated; neither is this Operation to be perform'd in the Breast, by reason of its Motion.
The Instruments proper for the making of Stitches, are streight and crooked Needles,
with waxed Thread; and these Sutures are of four sorts, viz. first the Intermittent Stitch for transverse Wounds; the second for the Hare-Lip; the third, commonly call'd the Dry Stitch, for superficial Wounds; and the fourth, term'd the Glover's Stitch.