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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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ouching, and other Operations for the Eyes ; the laft ismore correct than the firft, as you may extend or contract the Circle A A, B B>by elevating or depreffing the Button C. The Handle is denoted by D. Fig. 1 j. Reprefents a Needle for couching a Cataract in the right Eye with theright Hand. A the point of the Needle, B its Handle, in which is a parti-cular kind of Incurvation C to reft upon the Nofe. Fig. 18. Is a Cap or Sheath for including the Point of the faid Needle. Fig. 19. Is taken from the Appendix to the fourth Edition of Mr. CheseldensAnatomy, to fhew the manner of directing his Cutting:needle to open or incifethe clofed or contracted Uvea. Fig. 20. Denotes the manner of dividing the Uvea in its middle by the fame In-ftrument, to tranfmit the Rays of Light into the Eye. Fig. 21. Reprefents the manner in which Mr. Cheselden incifed the Uvealower than ufual, on the account of an Albugo, which infefted the middle ofthe Cornea in this Eye. CHAP. /.!<■ /. /:-t.z:f.4,#.
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Sed. II. Of the Pterygium. 419 CHAP. LVII. Of the Pterygium, or Unguis Oculorum. I ▼▼THEN a preternatural Membrane is formed externally upon the Coats Defcription. YY of the Eye, fo as to extend itfelf over the Cornea and Pupil, and ob-ftrudt the Sight, the Diforder is then ufually denominated Onyx by the Greeks,and Unguis or Ungula by the Latins ; tis alfo fometimes named Pterygium, fromits Refemblance to the Wing of a Bata. Sometimes the Pellicle or Film ap-pears red, from the Number of the fmall Blood-veffels, and then it is ufuallydenominated Pannus. It mod frequently arifes in the Angles of the Eyes fromthe Temples or Nofe, and fometimes from above or below, extending itfelfby degrees over the Cornea, (as in Tab. XVIIL. Fig. i, and 2. aa.) Sometimes itonly adheres (lightly to the Cornea by a few (lender Fibres, and fometimes againit is extended over the whole Eye, and continues mod firmly and intimately at-tached to it, which ufually renders the Cafe much more difficult to cu

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