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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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per Part, which is full of fmall Holes, and to beinferted into the Vagina. B the lower Part, open, for receiving the Pipeof the Funnel. Fig. 15. Is a Speculum Ani, or Inflrument to dilate and infpecr. the Anusand Vagina in Diforders of thofe Parts: It confifts of a hollow Cone or Beak,whofe two Sides are marked A A and B B, whichy being gently warmedand lubricated with Oil, are then puffed into the Anus or Vagina, and, bypreffing together the two Handles C and D, the Sides of its Cone arethereby gradually feparated, and dilate the Parts for Inflection,. E theHinge, in Manner of Ginglymus;. C H A P. CLXVXIL Of Fiftulae in the Anus. Biagnofis I. TT^HOSE Ulcers in or near the Anus and Rectum, which are recent, and rfnftjte. Ji afford a pus laudabile, or uniform Matter, are termed Abfceffes; but thofe which are more inveterate, callous, and afford a thin foetid Matter, fuch have been generally denominated Fiftulse by the Ancients, and are diftinguifh- e& fat if. p. 2.*, 2. Tab. xxxim.
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Mltm/efTr. Part II. Fiftula of the Anus. 253 ed by them into various Species, according to their different Symptoms.Some Fiftulae of the Anus are fmail and recent, others are narrow, and penetratedeep •, and others, again, are inveterate, and fo large, that, having deftroyedthe Skin and Adeps, they expofe the Rectum to View. Sometimes a recentFiftula has no great Callofity, only the Margin of its Entrance is a little indu-rated. Sometimes the Fiftula proceeds in a fingle and ftraight Courfe, andfometimes, again, it is crooked, and, in a manner, divided into Branches. Butbefore we proceed to a further Examination of this Diforder in all its Species,we (hall firft diftinguifh tiiree kinds of thefe Fiftulae remarked by the moil ex-pert Surgeons. Of the firft kind are thofe which do not perforate the Anusor Rectum, but have only a fingle or double Opening externally near the A-nus, by which they difcharge a thin foetid Matter, and are incompaffed withcallous Lips. To difcover how deep,

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