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 (14586959590)

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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: 1745 (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 in Pater-noster Row ... (and four others)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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e Thread drawn through to conjoin the Wound of the Eyelid.Fig. 23. Exhibits an Eye with the Ankyloblepharon, or Concretion of the Eyelids, marked A A.Fig. 24. Is a fmall grooved Director, fometimes ufeful to divide Concretions of the Eyelids.Fig. 25. A fmall Scalpel with an obtufe Point, ufed in feveral Diforders of the Eyes.Fig. 26. Reprefents the manner of incifing the lower Eyelid in the Etlr opium, or Lagophthalmia, or Everfion and Retraction of the Eyelids.Fig. 27. Reprefents an Encanthis, or Excrefcence in the Corner of the Eye near the Nofe.Fig. 28 and 29. Denote a Sarcoma and Hyperfarcofis, or flefhy Excrefcence with- in-fide the Eyelid •, that marked A belonging to the lower Eyelid, and that at B to the upper Lid.Fig. 30. Reprefents a fmall Hook, for elevating and extending thofe Tubercles, to extirpate them, the crooked Point of which may be made either fingle or double, as you may fee by removing the Gripe B in Fig. 31, where CC denote the two Prongs, DD the Handle. CHAP.
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Sed. II. Of Bleeding in the Eyes* %7? CHAP. LI. Of Bleeding in the Eyes. I. n^HOUGH Blood-letting in the Eyes has been, a few Yeats ago, ad- Not» newvanced by the Englifh Oculift Mr. Woolhouse, as an Invention of his Dlfcovery-own; yet it manifeftly appears from various Treatifes, that the Operation wasboth known, defcribed, and practifed above an hundred Years before among theGerman Phyficians3. This Operation is cried up by Mr. Woolhouse, as ofgreater Confequence than any other Difcovery in Phyflc ; he even thinks it pre-icrable to the celebrated Philofophers Stoneb. II. Blood-letting may be fuccefsfully ufed in the Eyes: i. Whenever thole in what ca-Organs are inflamed, that is, when the Blood-veffels, fpent on the White of the fo ufefu1.Eye, appear much larger and more numerous than ufual; wherein it will oftenfucqeed, when other Medicines, and even Phlebotomy, have been tried without their due Effects, and when the Inflammation runs to fuch a Height as to en-danger the Sight. 2.