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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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ue to treat the Wound with digeftiveOintments and vulnerary Balfaras,. retained with Lint, a Plafter, Comprefs, andBandage, as in other Wounds,, till it be healed,, which ufually happens in abouttwo Months. For the reft, it may be here proper to advife the Surgeon toapply the Tourniquet, before he removes the firft Dreffings, efpecially in Am+putations of the Humerus or Femur, in order to prevent an Haemorrhage,, or at.leaft the brachial Artery fhould be compreffed in the middle of the Arm by theThumb of an Affiftant.Treatment XIV. Laftly, as Amputations are often followed foon after with a Fever,,ef the Fever, efpecially in plethoric and ftrong Habits, it will in that cafe be neceffary to ufePhlebotomy with paregoric and cooling Medicines, joined with a proper Re-gimen and Diet •, without which there may be Danger of lofing the Patient,.,either by the Violence of the vulnerary Fever, as it is termed, a Sphacelus o£the Part, or other bad Accidents. Ait /&/<- <ry. ™^*U,.
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Se£t. I. Of Amputating the Foot and Leg. 341 An Explanation of the Thirteenth Plate. Fig. 1. Exhibits a fmall fized Scalpel, more commodious for dividing the Skinand Flefh in Amputations than the large crooked one following. Fig. 2. Is the large crooked or falciform Knife, commonly ufed for dividingthe Flefh to the Bone in Amputations of the upper and lower Extremities,though in moft Cafes I prefer the fmall one, Fig. i. Fig. 3. The Catlin, or double-edged Scalpel, for diving the Flefh and Liga-ment betwixt the Bones of the Cubitus and Tibia, which may be alfo per-formed by a lefs and fingle-edged Scalpel, like that in Tab. I. G. ThisKnife is alfo ufed in the method of amputating the Tibia, which preferves theCalf. Fig. 4. Reprefents the Saw ufed for amputating Bones of the Limbs. This In-ftrument is by many delineated as large again as our Figure of it; but a Sawof the fame Size, or but little larger than our Figure, will perform the Opera-tion as well, and even more commodioufly th

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