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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
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be joinedfirmly together. The fame Method of Binding and Retaining may be alfo ufefulin other Frafturcs of the Thighs, but it is found not only ufefiil but really necef-fary in oblique Fraftures of this Limb. But to prevent the Napkins or Ligaturesfrom galling the Groins, it may be fometimes proper to interpofe loft Comprefiesor Lint; and for Advice concerning the proper Poibare in which a broken Thigh.is to be retained, befides what has been briefly faid at Chap. I. ^.36, we fliall be.more fiill and particular in the Doftrine of Bandages.A Fraflure I^- ^^ ^ Fraclurc of the Thigh be accompanied with a Wound, it makes theef the Cafe very dangerous and difficult to cure; and if thefe Accidents fhould happen toa wtunl be inflicted on the neighbouring Joint, Death is generally the Confequence ; moreefpecially when any of the large Blood-vefTels are wounded, as muft. be evident fromthe great HsemDrrhage: fo alfo is the Fradure dangerous, when the Wound is feated •/A>uS ^^/■7. T.>
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Chap. VIII. Of a fraBured Thigh, 133 feated in the back Part of the Thigh •, becaufe it is with great DIfHcnIty to bedeanfed and dreffed. X. In thefe Fraftures with a Wound, the eighteen-headed Bandage Tab. 9. cure.Fig. 4. is to be ufed for the Drefling: this is defcribed at large in our third Part,upon Bandages. But if the wounded Part be very much contufed, fo thatextravafated Blood be lodged under the Skin and about its Interftices, it is to be carefully opened by feveral Incifions of a fufficient Depth, that the extravafatedBlood, which would in a fliort Time putrify, may be by this Means difcharged.The injured Parts are to be afterwards waihed with Aq. Calcis mixed with afourth Part of 5/). Vin. Camph. or fome fuch refolving Liquor, till the contufedParts are digefted. XI. When this Kind of Fradure is accompanied with lofs of Blood, which is when ac-not very violent, nor the Bone near, the Wound is to be dreffed with dry fcraped j^if h^-Lint, properly folded, fo as to fill the

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