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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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m and Rigor, or from a Palfy in one or two ofthe Mufcles of the Eye, as alfo from a Defedl or Infenfibility in fome Part ofthe Retina; for when that Part of the Retina which is oppofite to the Pupil,and receives the ImprelTion of the Objedl, is from any Caufe rendered infen-fible, the Patient is then obliged to turn his Eye obliquely, till the Pupil diredlsthe Rays from the Objefl upon fome other found Part of the Retina, in order. to fee the fame.When and ^ H- Squinting is a Diforder which is hardly ever cured without Difficulty,how it may more cfpccially when in Adults, and caufed by fome Defedt in the Mufcles orRetina of the Eye : But in young Infants you will piobably fucceed, accordingto the Adice of M. St. Yves, by frequently placing them before a Looking-glafs, that their Eyes may be direfted towards the Image of their own Face.Thofe more advanced in Years may be affifted by reading very fmall Writing,or infpeding very minute Objeds, provided you obferve and diredl them to turn
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Se£t. II. Explafiaimi^of the Eighteenth Plate. 431 turn their Eyes even, and to bathe them at times with Jq. Hungar. Thereare others who propofe to cure this Diforder with a fort of Mafic or Eye-Swath, as in Jab. XVIII. Fig. i6. taken from Solingen, and defcribed moreparticularly in the Explanation of the following Table. This Method is alforecommended by Bartischius, in his Ophthalmoduleia, Pag. 15, 16, and 17.But, left Infants fliould look ftrait through the Aperture with only one Eye,and fquint in the mean time with the other, it will be beft to bind up one Eyetill the other is rectified, and then to corredl the other in the fame manner;which is feldom pradicable, through Morofenefs of Infants, and other Im-pediments. An Explanation of the Eighteenth Plate. ■ Fig. I. Denotes an Unguis a on the Eye, with the Method of paffing a Needleand Thread under it h b, for its Removal. :Fig. 2, Reprefents another Unguis, or Pterygium a a, with a Thread tied roundit bb, and at their Extremit

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