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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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e Cavity of the Thorax, and to throw Injectionsinto that Part, or into the Fauces. Fig. 12. Another perforated at the end like a Cullender. Fig. 13. Another like the former, but curved, to throw Injections into theUterus, and for other ufes. Fig. 14. An Iron Inftrument like an Ear-picker, for various ufes. CHAP. XL Of W O U N D S of the Neck. Wounds of I. X TT TOUNDS of the Neck are no lefs dangerous than thofe of the Tho-badfoCnCfkof \/\/ rax or Abdomen ; infomuch that I am furprized to find feveral Chi-quencc?0 Y Y rurgical Writers treat of Wounds of this Clafs flightly, as if they were fcarce worthy of their notice.How many II. There are feveral forts of Wounds in the Neck, fometimes the feat of thewoundfof Wound is only in the common Integuments, and the mufcular Flefh : This is&e°Neck.0 attended with very little danger ; but the moil dangerous, and indeed generally incurable Wounds, are thofe of the larger Blood-Veffels in thefe Parts; fuch are thofe r/jt<- 6 r*t-J:J-.74-
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Of Wo u n d s of the Neck 7? thofe of the jugular Veins, carotid and vertebral Arteries, or where the AfperaArteria is wounded, or the Gula, the Medulla Spinalis, the Nerves that de-fcend by the Neck •, fuch as the Par Vagum, the Intercoftales, and the Dia-phragmatici, or where feveral of thefe Parts are wounded at the fame time. III. You will eafily difcover with your Eye, or by confidering the fituation Dl-agrionsof the Wound, and the Symptoms that attend it, what Parts of the Neck are^nd Progno-the Subjects of the Wound. After this, the Diagnoftic and Prognoflic of thofe 1SWounds will eafily follow -, for whoever is thoroughly acquainted with thecondition of a Wound, will find no great difficulty in determining the event of it. Where the common Integuments and Mufcles alone are wounded, youwill have no reafon to dread any very ill confequences ; but where any of theother Parts of the Neck are Partakers of-the Injury, you have reafon to appre-hend the greateft Danger, becaufe mod

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