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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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Part 11. Explanation of the Th i r t y - t h i r d Pl a t r . 131 Fig. 8. Reprefents the Head obftrudled by the left Side of the Pelvis, and theNeck being ftrongly comprefled by the Contraftion of the Uterus, rendersthe Birth extremely difficult, or impradicable. Fig. 9. Shews tlie Infants Head inclined towards the right Side of the Pelvis,with the manner of replacing it by the Hand, when the Waters have beenlately difcharged. Fig. 10. Shews the Infant prefenting its Elbow or Shoulder to the Os Uteri, withthe manner of apprehending the Feet, in order to turn and extraft them inthis, and other unnatural Poftures. Fig. 11. Denotes the manner of paffing up the Hand, in order to turn and ex-trad the Infent by its Feet, when its Hand and Arm hang out of theWomb. Fig. 12. Shews the Infant with one Foot out, and the manner of inveftigatingthe other for its Extradion. Fig. 13. Exhibits- the Method of feparating and extrading the Placenta fromthe Womb, when it does not eafily follow the Infant

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