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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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afe or Pouch for containing theInftruments, to be faftened about the Waift of the Operator; this is repre-fented by itfelf in Tab. XXX. Fig. 6. - Fig. 10. Exhibits one of the open Ligatures with which Ravius ufed to faftenthe Patients Hands and Legs together. A the Loop for containing theWrift, B B its two loofe Ends to be faftened round the Leg, of which feemore hereafter. ;- CHAP. CXLII. Of Lithotomy by the Apparatus Altus, or the high Operation of PeterFranc us, whereby the Stone is extracted by an Incifion in the Hypo-gajirick Region, above the Offa Pubis. I^Hiftor ** OEfides the two preceding Methods of Lithotomy by the Apparatus Ma-of this Me- JL/ jor and Minor, pradtifed by our modern Surgeons, we alfo meet withthod. a third Method propofed and defcribed in their Chirurgical Writings, which isafcribed to one Peter Francus, a French Surgeon, as its firft Inventor, af-ter whom it has been denominated Metbodus FranconUa, and from the Place of Incifion ffUl.p.izo: tab.xxix. T^ur f.
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J.Sftmt/e /* ■ Part II. Of Lithotomy by the Apparatus Altus. 127 Incifion being in the middle of the Hypogajlrium, it has been alfo termed theHypogajiric SeSiion, and commonly the Apparatus Altus, becaufe the Operationis performed above the OJfa Pubis in the fuperior and anterior Part of the Blad-der ; whereas in the Apparatus Major, Minor, and the Lateral Operation theIncifion is made beneath the Scrotum in the Perinaum. However, this newMethod of Lithotomy was hardly ever once performed by its Inventor, but it was.as quickly expunged the Practice of Surgery, and hardly ever mentioned in theSchools, but with a View to explode it. And notwithftanding its firft Authorperformed the Operation with Succefs upon a Lad of two Years old, at Lau-fanne in Switzerland, Ann. 1560, it was becaufe he was obliged to it from theStone being as big as a Hens Egg, too large to be extracted at the Perinauma.And though he undertook the Operation by the Intreaty of the Parents, andhappened to fucceed th

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