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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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rating before defcribed at A°. 5. is much more pre-ferable -, yet we were unwilling to omit furnifhing our Readers with this newMethod and Inftrument, which will be explained more at large in the Refe-rences to Tab. XXIII. following.what is to vil. When the Breaft has been taken off any of the forementioned Ways,Jr th/o- it may be proper to let it bleed a little before it is dreffed •, not fo much to dif-peration. charge the cancerous and infected Blood, as fome imagine, as to prevent a fu-ture Haemorrhage and Inflammation : Which may however be omitted in cafeof Weaknefs ; and then dreffed as we have directed at N°. 3. Only we are to ob-ferve this Admonition, that the Dreflings are not to be taken off before the thirdDay •, nor even then Ihould any of the Lint be pulled off, till it falls off of itsown Accord : And the feldomer or more tenderly the Dreffings are made, themore kindly and fpeedily does it ufually heal -, but when there is a copious Difcharge fet.n.p.ifi TAB. XXIL
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J.JU#*Jt\ /.- Sect. IV. Extirpation of cancerous Breasts. 17 Difchsrge, the Dreffing may be repeated the oftner, and made with dry Lintonly, which has been moiftened with a little Tincture of Myrrh and Amber,inftead of digeftive Ointments, which will leffen the Difcharge that generallyweakens the Patient \ In the mean Time the Patient is to be fupported notonly with good and eafy Nourifhment, as Broths, Gellies, Cuftard, &c. butalfo with mild Cordials and pleafant Emulfions. On the contrary, the Surgeonmould be equally folicitous to avoid too great Drinefs, as Difcharge of the Parts,which has been by fome Authors obferved as a Mark that the Diforder willreturn : In this Cafe, it may be therefore proper to apply Mel Rofarum to pro-mote a good Digeftion of the Parts. When the Cancer has been by thefeMeans cured, the Patient mould ever after obferve a regular Way of Life,avoiding Exceffes of all Kinds, and obferving to bleed and purge at properIntervals, efpecially Spring and Fall. I

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