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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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B. I. Chap. I. N. 46. and atPlate IV. Fig. 16. In large tranfverfe Wounds of the Abdomen, which do notpafs through the Peritoneum, Palfynus advifes the ufe of this Suture, whichis to be performed according to the method I have defcribed above in the firftChapter.Gabev- XVIII. Garengeot prefers this Suture to all others, even in Wounds that pe- ^°J/ ^ netrate into the cavity of the Abdomen, and recommends the following mannerof performing it. Inftead of a. double Thread, he twifts fix or eight ftrongThreads together and waxes them well, paffing them through the Eye of a largecrooked Needle, fuch an one as is defcribed in Plate VI. at Fig. 5. or 6. theSurgeon takes hold of the Needle at the blunt End with his right Hand, and paf-fes the Thumb of his left Hand into the Wound, railing the upper Lip with it,whilft he fixes the Fingers of the fame Hand upon the external part of the Lip;jie then introduces the point of the Needle into the Abdomen, and raifing it up about r/<iK J ^HJ.T.63
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