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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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y excite Inflammation, Pain, Convullion, and other bad Symptoms; fothat we cannot approve of their ufe, but in the greateft NecelTity, where weperceive the Cure of the Wound cannot be effefted v/ithout. VI. If the Thigh Bone fhould be cut by a Sword, then, the better to clofeand retain thofe ftrong Mufcles, a Suaire made with Needles and Thread, asin fome otlier V/cunds (Book I. Chap. I. § 33 and 34.) will certainly be of Ser-vice ; the Wound is to be treated in the Method we have there taught, boundup with the eighteen-headed Bandage, and the Limb is to be placed carefijllyin a Cafe of Straw, as in other Frailures. So alfo if the Bone of the Humerusor Arm fhould be penetrated by a Sword, it fhould, for the fame reafon, be trea-ted with the Suture as before; yet not dreiTed with the eighteen-headed Ban-dage, but a long an-d narrow one as in other Fra6bures of the Arm. The Armis afterwards to be fupported by a fhort Napkin, fattened about the Neck -, by T/aU- AV.y:v°. ^^. /. <^-^-
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chap. XI. Fractures of the Bones. 141 by which means the Mufcles will be brought to a more ready Union, and theCure fooner and eafier perfedled. VII. If it iliould at any time happen that both the Bones in the Cubitus of bath the6r Crus are divided, fo as to leave the Member hanging only by the Flefh, cX« Ird^Skin, and Blood Veffels, which is an Accident that very rarely happens with- Legdiviacdout wholly amputating the Limb -, then alfo the Suture with the eighteen-head- S^^^^-ed Bandage are to be applied. Bat the Suture can be of no Service v>hen the Part is wholly or fo far cut off as to hang by the Skin, its Nerves and BloodVefTels being divided •, efpecially v/hen the Part is fo confiderable as the Leg orArm: for in that Cafe it is much the beft to take the Limb quite ofr, to ilopthe violent Hemorrhage of the VefTels, as in other Amputations, and to dreisthe Member Ln the fame manner. VIII. When the lower Jaw is fo cut by a Sword that the Piece feparates yJ °^much, and can

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