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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: 1743 (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 at the West-End os St. Paul's ... (and four others)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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here, you muft in
that Cafe firft fecure it by Ligature before you proceed farther in your Ope-
ration. The next Step is to divide the Ligament of the Articulation firft in its upper Part, and then on each Side but very cautioufiy ; moving the Head of ;
the Humerus, at the fame time with your left Hand, that you may only divide ithe invefting Ligament of the Articulation without injuring the Artery. Thus iyou may be fenfible whether the Arteries are well fecured ; but even afterwards you muft be very cautious not to wound the Artery, in dividing the reft of the
mufcular Flefh beneath the Articulation. Laftly, you muft divide the Skin
from the Arm near the Axilla, fo as to leave a triangular Piece with its Corner
outermoft, and its Bafis next the Body, fo as to be afterwards brought up overthe Wound ; and thus your Amputation is completed.

^a Le Dran ufes a firait Needlej but Garengeot recommends a crooked one, like that to be
feen in Tab. XIV. Fig, 10.
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Sect I. Of Amputating the Arm at the scapula, 349
VII. The Arm being totally removed in the manner now defcribed, yon muft ^?\^next fcarch for the Artery you before fecured by I-igature, togetlier with a teMreAm-portion of the Flefli, and having difcovered it, you now malce another Liga-p-ture above the former upon theVeffcl only, by a fmall crooked Needle, Tab, VI.Fig. 5. armed with ftrong Thread, after which you remove the firft Ligaturefrom the Flefh and Veffcl, to prevent it from exciting an Inflammation, yiW. You come now to the Drefiings of the Stump, which muft be made Dreffingswith a pledgit of Lint with fmall Linen-comprelTes upon the Ends of the divid- tTon.^^^cd Arteries you before fecured by Ligature. The lower part of the Skin isthen drawn upward,.and the upper part is drawn down together with the pieceof the Deltoeide-mufcle ; and, in my Opinion, it would be better to apply noPledgit or ComprefTes to the Arteries or Bone, before you have thus filled theSinus o

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