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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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halos, as reprefented in Tab. XXIV. Fig. 12. where the Letters AAA Adenote a kind of large Ring in the Integuments or near the Navel, in whichv/as contained the Peritonsum dilated and pellucid, through which might befeen the Inteftines BBB in the living Subjeft. So long as the Patient wore aGirdle, with a hard Comprefs or Pillow upon the Part, reprefented in Tab.XXIV. Fig. 6. the Inteftines remained in the Abdomen in their natural Pofi-tions ; but upon removing the Supports, the Inteftines immediately protrudedinto the thin Membrane, forming a Sort of Bag, protuberant at the Navel.It is probable, other Surgeons and Phyficians may have made Obfervations ofthe like Kind ; and at leaft, I have Garengeot and Palfyn agreeing withme in cppofition to Dicnis, who both affirm that the Inteftines are containedin a kind of Sacculus or Dilatation of the Peritonseum. But we are not totally todeny, that the Opinion of Dion is may fometimes be true ; for fome Cafes have been r^u.p.44.. Tab ^-^-J^•
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Se6l. V. Of timhiTtcal Ruptures. 43 been doubtlefs obferved, as well in dead as living Subjefts, where the Inteftineshave not been confined in a Sacculus of the Peritoneum, but protruded under theInteguments, through a Rupture of that Membrane. However, the Surgeonfhould be careful not to be in.p^jfed upon, by miftaking the Inteftine itfelf forthe Sacculus, the wounding of which would perhaps be fatal. ^« Explanation c/^i^ Twenty Fourth Plate. Fig. r. The Trocar, confifting of a triangular pointed fteel Bodkin, in-cluded in a filver Cannula, ferving to tap or perforate the Abdomen and Scro-tum in dropfical Patients. A, its Handle ; B, its triangular Point; CC, theincluding Cannula or fmall Pipe. Fig. 2. and 3. is the fame Inftrument afunder -, BC, the fteel Bodkin thatmakes the Perforation ; A, its Handle (Fig. 3.) is the filver Cannula or Tube -,AA, the Part to be inferted into the Abdomen. C, Two oval Apertures oneach Side, that the Water may enter not only at the End but on each S

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