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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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a kind of Syringotomus taken in part from Garengeots Treatifeon Inftruments (Tom. I. pag. 337.) AAA denotes the Concave and fharp-edged Part for cutting, B B B its convex Back, which is obtufe, C D theSilver-wire or Probe-end, which is flexible, and beginning at the letter C,,terminates at the point D : The part marked EE being bent in form of aHook, ferves as a Flandle to facilitate the cutting of a Fiftula, when it isvery hard or callous r F denotes where the Inftrument terminated, as madeaccording to my own Direftions, without the Part D F, by which means itmore commodioufly performs its Ofiice, than if it were of the whole length,here reprefented. Fig. 4, 5,. 6, and 7. Reprefent feveral common Syringotomi of the Ancients,,of different Sizes and Curvatures, and furnilhed either with obtufe or ftiarp-Points, according to the different Circumftances of Fiftute; in thefe the Partv/hich cuts is marked A B, C the Probe-end,. D D the Convex and obtufe.Back. i^n. j». ^/?s. Tab. >^\-x\
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J.MynJ.-/:: Sc£l. VI. Of the Paronychia. 16j Fig. 8. Is a Scalpel or Syringotomus firft publifhed by Bassi us : A A A denotethe Edge of this Falciform Scalpel, BB the flexible Probe-end, made of Sil-ver, C its Point, D D its Handle. Fig. 9, 10, M, 12, and 13. Reprcfent the Inftruments recommended to me forthefe Fiftute, by Rungius, a Surgeon oiBremen. Fig. 9. AB its groovedProbe or Direftor, CD the Handle, E the Part where the Direftor is ufuallybent according to the Nature of the Fillula: Fig. 10 gives a diredl Viewof the Groove in the Direftor, as the preceding gave an oblique one: Fig.11, A B is a Tube, or large Canula, to be paffed into the Anus for the Re-ception of the Edge of the Knife, Fig. 13. in cutting the Fiftula, that it maynot injure the other adjacent Parts, CB its Handle inclined to the oppofiteSide : Fig. 12. gives a direft View of the Cavity in this Canula, that its Dia-meter may be the better difcerned: Fig. 13. is a long and narrow Scalpel,which, in cutting for a

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