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 (14582843719)

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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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. A remarkable Inftance of one ofthefe Fiftulse being happily cured by this Method, chiefly by Suture, I Ihallcommunicate in the Obfervations which I intend fhortly to publifh. V. Hitherto we have defcribed the four Methods of treating Fiftuls of thePerin^Eum, it ftill remains for me to take notice briefly of a fifth ufed intreating this Diforder, which is ufually called the palliative Method: To thisHead belongs the Inftrument defcribed by Nucre andSoLiNCEN, and propofedby WI NSLOw ; I mean the Yoke which v/e have defcribed in Chap. CXXXVI.for an Incontinency of Urine, that, by comprefTing the Fiftula with this In-ftrument, the Urine may not be continually difcharged through it ; and thusthe Diforder may be in fome meafure mitigated, when a perfed; Cure cannotbe abfolutely obtained; but, to fay the Truth, this Inftrument is very often butof little Service to the Patient, as we learn from Experience, fince it permits theLrine to efcape thro the Fiftula. An <vjy. p. 1^1. Tab . xxxj.

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Part II. Exp/a^a^io/-/ of tBe Thirty-first FlATE, ipi yf« Explanation of the Thirtv-second Plate. Fig. I. Reprefents a human Bladder taken from a male Subjedt, in the anteriorPart of which may be fcen various empty Tubercles, or Cells, which are di-ftended by inflating the Bladder; in which Cells the Stone lies fometimesconcealed. AAA fhew the pyramidal Figure of the Bladder; B denotesthe proftate Gland invefting the Neck of the Bladder, which is tied with aThread near the Urethra. C is the hollow Cell on the right Side of theBladder, which is larger than any of the reft. D reprefents a lefs Cavity a-bove the former. E iliews a like Cavity on the left Side, another of whichis at the Fundus of the Bladder marked F. a aa denote the Blood-veffclswhich are diftributad upon the Bladder.• Fig. 2. Reprefents a pofterior View of the fime Bladder, being explicable by thefame Letters -, to which add G G G G Cells which are ftiil fmaller, and notto be dilcerned on its anterior Part. Fig. 3. E

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