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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
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Is a kind of Syringotomus taken in Part from Garengeots Treatifeon Inftruments (Tom. I. pag. 337.J AAA denote the Concave and fharp-edged Part for cutting, BBB its convex Back, which is obtufe, CD theSilver Wire or Probe End, which is flexible,, and beginning at the letter C,terminates at the Point D : The Part marked EE being bent in form of aHook, ferves as a Handle to facilitate the cutting of a Fiftula, when it is.very hard or callous: F denotes where the Inftrument terminated, as madeaccording to my own Directions, without the Part DF, by which Means itmore commodioufly performs its Office, than if it were of the whole Lengtkhere reprefented. Fig. 4, 5, 6, and 7. Reprefent feveral common Syringotomi of the Ancients,,.of different Sizes and Curvatures, and furnifhed either with obtufe or lharpPoints, according to, the different Circumftances of Fiftula? ; in thefe thePart which cuts is marked ABj C the Probe Endi, DD the convex, andobtufe Back. Fig. i-i-iji. p. *#<?. Tab, xxxy.
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JCJTfmtr. Sea. VI. Of the Paronychia. 267 Fig. 8. Is a Scalpell or Syringotomus firft publifhed by Bassius : AAA denotethe Edge of this Falciform Scalpell, BB the flexible Probe End, made ofSilver, C its Point, DD its Handle. Fig. 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Reprefent the Inftruments recommended to meforthefe Fiftutee, by Rungius, a Surgeon of Bremen. Fig. 9. AB its groovedProbe or Director, C D the Handle, E the Part where the Director is ufuallybent according to the Nature of the Fiftula : Fig. 10. gives a direct Viewof the Groove in the Director, as the preceding gave an oblique one : Fig.11. AB is a Tube, or large Canula, to be pafled into the Anus for the Re-ception of the Edge of the Knife, Fig. 13. in cutting the Fiftula, that it maynot injure the other adjacent Parts, CB its Handle inclined to the oppofiteSide: Fig. 12. gives a direct View of the Cavity, in this Canula, that itsDiameter may be the better difcemed : Fig. 13. is a long and narrow Scalpell,which, in cutting for a Fift

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