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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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you do.not fucceed. You may divide the preternatural Membraneeither by a tranfverfe or longitudinal Incifion, taking care that you do not at thefame time wound the Membrane of the Tympanum, which in Infants is notfeated fo deep in the Ear as in Adults. T CHAP. LXVI. Of extracting of foreign Bodies out of the Ears. \H E Hearing is frequently impeded by an indurated Lump of the Ear-wax or by a Pea, Cherry-ftone, Infecl, or the like, having flipt into itsCavity Thefe are to be extracted upon two Accounts, firft becaufe they givethe Patient great Pain and Uneafinefs, and, Secondly,- becaufe they deftroy hisHearing You may know of what kind the offending Body is, partly fromthe account of the Patient, and partly from infpefting and fearching with yourProbe, or fome other Inftrument. When the Accident anfes from a Lump otdried and indurated Ear-wax obftrufting the Patients Hearing, it will be beltto injca fome warm Milk, or Oil of Olives or Almonds, ordering the Patient V ffi- TsLl.P. 43 c
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Se£. II. Of Tubercles w the Meatus Auditorius. 433 to hold his Head inclined on the contrary fide while you ufe the Syringe. Butthe Cerumen of the Ear is often too much indurated to be mollified and dif-charged at one Operation ; and therefore you muft fyringe the Patient feveraltimes till the Impediment is removed. If a fmall Calculus, or a Cherry-ftonebe lodged in it, you muft firft of all relax and mollify the PafTages of the Ear,by dropping in fome warm Milk or Oil, and then carefully extract the Bodywith your Probe, or the Pliers reprefented in Tab. I. lit. E. But if the foreignBody fhould happen to be a Pea, Bean, or fome other Grain, which is toomuch iwelled by the Humours to be difcharged entire by the Probe, or otherInstrument, you muft break it with Pliers, or cut it with fmall Sciflbrs, and ex-tract it by a bit at a time. Sometimes a Flea, or other Infect gets into the Ear,and, by ftruggling to get loofe from the glutinous Ear-wax, excites an intolera-ble Pruritus and tick

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