A general system of surgery in three parts - Containing the doctrine and management, I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on (14582756620)

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Title: A general system of surgery in three parts : Containing the doctrine and management, I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders. The whole illustrated with thirty eight copper-plates, exhibiting all the operations, instruments, bandages, and improvements, according to the modern and most approved practice : to which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery : with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Being a work of thirty years experience

Year: 1743 (1740s)

Authors: Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758 Mynde, J

Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgical instruments and apparatus Bandages and bandaging Surgery General Surgery Bandages

Publisher: London : Printed for W. Innys at the West-End os St. Paul's ... (and four others)

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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III. lo a malignant Encanthis, inclining to be cancerous, being hard, livid,of a m3i.ig- ^ gj.„ painful, tis generally better to let it alone, and to mitigate its Uneafi-this. nefs with cooling and lenient LoUyria, rather than to exalperate it by the Opera- tion, or by efcharotic Medicines; otherwife you may perhaps bring on Sym-ptoms worfe than the original Difeafe, as is frequently done in cancerous Difor-ders by improper Treatment. We have an extraordinary Cure of this Diforderrelated by Purmannus in his Coirurgia Curiofa ; in which, after having exdr-pated the very large Tubercle by Ligature, he applied an adual Cautery to itsRoot with Succefs. C H A P. L, Of the Sarcoma and Hyperfarcolis, or Excrefcence formed betwixt theEye and its Lids. Defcription. I. p ELATED to the foregoing Diforder are thofe Tubercles, or flefliy Ex-A\. crefcences, on the inner Surface of the Eye-lids, termed by the Greeks^Sarcomata and Hyperfarcofes, (fee Tab. XV, Fig. 28, 29.) which, in the Begin-ning,

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SeS:, I. Exphnatton of the FiFTE^NTn Vl ate. ^7$ nine, are ufually very fmall, but by degrees advance to a confiderable Bulk.Some of them are fmooth and even furfaced, and fome again are rougii and un-equal lilce the Rafberry or Mulberry, of which Excrefcences I have feen andcured feveral. II. I generally remove thefe Tubercles, firft by carefully extrafting them Cure,•with a fmall Hook, Tab. XV. Fig. 30, 31. and then cutting down to the Rootwith a pair of fmall SciiTars, and, after letting it bleed a while, I order thePatient frequently to wafh his Eye with a Collyrium ex Lap. Tutia Aloe. Cs?Sacc. Saturn, in Aq. Rof. Solut. till the Wound is healed. Inftead of aHook you may alfo extend the Tubercle, by paffing a Needle and Threadthrough it. Some endeavour to remove thefe Iubercles by Efcharotics, andLap. infernalis, but I think Incifion to be much fafer, as well as more expedi-tious, and lefs painful. Jn Explanation of the Fifteenth Plate. Fig. I. Is an Iron Cautery to make IfTues

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