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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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the Tendon is alfo perforated on its in-fide in two Places by the fameNeedles, and the ends of the Thread tied upon a Comprefs or Bit of Leather. Fig. 5. Exhibits the Shape of a Ferula to be made of thin Wood or fl:ifF Pafte-board, to extend the Fingers in a Suture of the Tendons on the Back of the - Hand. Fig. 6. Reprefents Garengeots fmall crooked Needle for the Suture of Ten-dons, which the Moderns think more handy than the flraight one,^ as it maybe better held, and tranfmitted through the Tendon ; but it has no fliarp orcutting Edges at its Point like the common crooked Needles in Tali. I. left itiliould wound the tranfverfe Fibres of the Tendon. Its Author thinksthere might be a fliarp-Edge in its concave Part A; but I rather think itfhould be on the Convexity B. The Eye of this Needleis not made fide-ways, as is common, but anfwering to its Concavity and Convexity, for themore eafy Tranfmiffion of the Thread. This fmall Needle is for the lefler Ten- r^ir. /-. Iff a. Tab, xxxvi
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J M.jnM/c Sedl. VI. Explanation of the TuiKTY ^ixTR Plate. ipi Tendons, as thofe in the Hands -, but for the larger, as the Tendo Achillis., theNeedle muft be proportionably bigger, as at Fig. 9. Fig. 7. Shews the Method of uniting the Tendo Achillis by Suture, as takenfrom KisNERi Dijfertatio de Tendinum lajionibus. A The bottom of the calfof the Leg, B the Os Calcis into which this Tendon is inferted or fixed, Cthe Wound or Divifion of the Tendon, D the knot of a ftrong doubleThread, intercepted by the fquare bit of Leather E, F the fame Thread fa-ttened by the flip-knot G G, upon another fquare piece of Leather. But thegenerality of Surgeons chufe to perforate the upper Part of the Tendon firft,and to make the knots upon its lower End. Fig. 8. Exhibits a large, ftrong, and ftraight Needle with a flat Point, recom-mended by fome for the Suture of the Tendo Achillis, and Tendon of theExtenfores TUpi^y^B the double-waxed Thread armed with the knot C at itsExtremity. Fig. 9. Is a large

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