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 (14766285071)

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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^ y^^ qj. Abdomcn; infomuch, that I am furprized to find feveral Chi-quence. rurgical Writers treat of Wounds of this Clafs flightly, as if they were fcarce worthy of their notice.How many n. There are feveral forts of Wounds in the Neck, fometimes the feat of thewotndf of Wound is only in the common Integuments, and the mufcular Flefh, this isthe Neck, attended with very little danger; but the moft dangerous, and indeed generally incurable Wounds, are thofe of the larger Blood-vefTels in thefe Parts; fuch are thofe -k^.i:J.-74-

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of Wounds in the Neck, jj thofe of the jugular Veins, carotid and vertebral Arteries, or where the AfperaArteria is wounded, or the Gula, the Medulla Spinalis, the Nerves that de-fcend by the Neck ; fuch as the Par Vagum, the Intercoftales, and the Diaphrag-matici, or where feveral of thefe Parts are wounded at the fame time. III. You will eafily difcover with your Eye, or by confidering the fituation Yni?ioTfiof the Wound, and the Symptoms that attend it, what Parts of the Neck &. are the Subjedis of the Wound, After this the Diagnoftic and Prognoftic ofthofe Wounds will eafily follow; for whoever is thoroughly acquainted withthe condition of a Wound, will find no great difficulty in determining the eventof it. Where the common Integuments and Mufcles alone are wounded, youwill have no reafon to dread any very ill confequences; but where any of theother Parts of the Neck are Partakers of the Injury, you have reafon to appre-hend the greateft Danger, becaufe moft of thofe Parts ar

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