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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: 1745 (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 in Pater-noster Row ... (and four others)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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the Hand, which may, on fome Occafions, be amputated, inthe manner of the ancient Surgeons, by one Blow with the Mallet upon a fharpChiffel fixed near thejCarpus, as the Operation is reprefented in Tab. LIII. ofScultetus, Edit. An. 1666. But in reality this Method is often found tobe not only unfafe, but even of dangerous Confequence, by violent contufing orfracturing fome of the Bones and Parts in the Carpus. It is therefore not with-out reafon, that the Moderns reject this Practice for that with the Knife andSaw, with which they take off the Hand more flowly indeed, but more fecureJy, a See Part I. Book IV. Chap. XIV. preceding. b See Part I. Book V. Chap. VIII, IX. preceding. c I have frequently flopped profufe Haemorrhages from the brachial Artery by Ligature, and there-fore it will not be fo often necefiary to amputate the Arm on that Account, as many Surgeons imagineand direct. d Lib. de AbfcefT. • e Exercit. Medic. Chirurg. f Epifi. Anatom. Problem. XIV. pro- f/u/e /. AV./.y;
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Sect I. Of Amputating the Hand, &c. 335 provided the Saw be not ufed to the Carpus or Metacarpus, becaufe the nume-rous Ligaments, Tendons, and fmall Bones there feated, cannot fafely be dividedby the rough Teeth of that Inftrument. a The Practice of the modern Surgeonsis therefore here much the belt, who amputate the Hand by the Knife and Saw,cutting through the Bones of the Cubitus, as will prefently appear. III. When the. Hand, Cubitus, or Humerus, are required to be amputated what is t»upon the account of fome,incurable Sphacelus, Caries, or other Diforder, there ine ampum-are then two Things chiefly neceflary to be obferved : The firft of thefe is the ™% thePlace where the Amputation mutt be made, which muft at leaft be one or twoFinders Breadth above the mortified Part, never in the difeafed Part itfelf; nor ou°ht thefe larger kind of Amputations to be ever made in the Articulations >%for (befides other Difficulties) there being no Fkfh there to cover the Ends ofthe B

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