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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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in the Form of a Heart like that of the common one in Tab. XXVILor elfe flat and folid, as that of Mr. Cheselden in Fig. 6. Tab. XXXI. orwith a Ring like that of M. Le Dran in Fig. 17. a a of this Table. Fig. 3. Reprefents the Beak or grooved Part of Raws Catheter, in which maybe feen its thin, but smooth and obtufe Sides marked aa, betwixt which isthe large Groove marked bb. C is the Termination of the Groove, in afmooth and obtufe Point. Fig. 4. Is a tranfverfe Section of the grooved Part of this Catheter, to fhew itsForm and Depth, that the Knife may not eafily flip out of it. Fig. 5. Exhibits the grooved Catheter of Mr. Cheselden, which is more (len-der, and lefs crooked than that of Raws and the common ones: aa denotesthe Edge of its Handle in the Shape of a Heart: bb the Body of it in a recti-linear Form: cc the Curve and grooved Part: dthe Beak of the Inftrument,which has little or no Incurvation. Douglas calls it the Roftrum or Beak,which is ftrait. Fig. rur. p.182. Tab. xxxr.
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XJKuruUA Part. II. Explanation of the Thirty-first Plate. i % $ Fig. 6. Reprefents the flat Side of the Handle (a) of this Catheter, with Part ofits Groove (cc) and its whole Body (bb). Fig. j. Denotes the fixait Beak of the Groove in Mr. Cheseld ens Catheter,whofe Sides (marked a a) are fmooth and obtufe, like Raws ; but its Endb is left open, and not made rounding or clofed, as in the other Catheters.But I am not fenfible of any Advantage that attends this particular Make,nor does its Author mention any. Fig. 8. Is the Incifion-knife of Mr. Cheselden, which he ufes in cutting forthe Stone ; whofe Blade is fixed to the Handle a a, and its Point directly inthe middle. Fig. 9. Shews the concave Part of Mr. Cheseldens Conductor BB,, having,its Handle A A inclined to the left Side, for the more commodious Intro-duction of the Forceps through it into the Bladder; C the Extremity of itsBeak terminating in a flat Point, fhewn fide-ways in Fig. 10, and in Fig. 11.its Handle is reprefented fe

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