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 (14769138592)

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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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you muft continue to treat the Wound withdigeftive Ointments and vulnerary Balfams, retained with Lint, a Plaflier, Com-prefs, and Bandage, as in other Wounds, till it be healed, which ufually hap-pens in about two Months. For the refl:, it may be here proper to advife theSurgeon to apply the Tourniquet, before he removes the firft Drefllngs, elpe-cially in Amputations of the Humerus or Femur, in order to prevent an He-morrhage, or at leaft the brachial Artery fliould be compreflTed in the middleof the Arm by the Thumb of an Afllftant.Treatment XIV. Laftly, as, Ampotatious are often followed foon after with a Fever,•efpecially in plethoric and flrong Habits, it will in that cafe be neceflTary to ufePhlebotomy with paregoric and cooling Medicines, joined with a proper Re-gimen and Diet; without which there may be Danger of lofing the Patient,either by the Violence of the vulnerary Fever, as it is termed, a Sphacelus ofthe Part, or other bad Accidents. el tlicfever •/Jfev /s. ^ir-j.

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Sed, I. Of Amputattng the Foot and Leg, 341 An Explanation of the Thirteenth Plate. Fig. I. Exhibits a fmall fized Scalpel, more commodious for dividing the Skinand Flelli in Amputations than the large crooked one following. Fig. 2. Is the large crooked or falciform Knife, commonly ufed for dividingthe Flefli to the Bone in Amputations of the upper and lower Extremities,though in mod Cafes I prefer the fmall one, Fig. i. Fig. 3. The Catlin, or double-edged Scalpel, for dividing the Flefh and Liga-ment betwixt the Bones of the Cubitus and Tibia, which may be alfo per-formed by a lefs and fingle-edged Scalpel, like that in Tab. I. G. ThisKnife is alfo ufed in the Method of amputating the Tibia, which prefervesthe Calf. Fig. 4. Reprefents the Saw ufed for amputating Bones of the Limbs. ThisInftrument is by many delineated as large again as our Figure of it; but aSaw of the fame Size, or but little larger than our Figure, will perform the •Operation as well, and even more commodioufly t

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