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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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od from the crural Artery or Vein of anAnimal into the Arm of a Man, by the Intervention of the Tube A. C H A P, XV. Of Inoculation for the Small Pox. The pefignj> ^-pHE Art of engrafting or propagating the Small Pox by Incifion orciapter. Inoculation has been an Operation equally famous in all Nations with thofe in the preceding Chapter ; and therefore we ftiall, for the fake ofBeginners, defcribe the Procefs of it, which under proper Circumftances may beof great Service to Mankind.inoculation jj, The Defign of this Operation is to communicate by Art a milder Speciesscn of the Small Pox to the Infant or adult Patient than that received by the natu-ral Infection, and this by engrafting fome of the variolous Matter ; in order towhich a fmall Incifion a is to be firft made with a Scalpel or Lancet through the a But Dr. Harris in his Chirurgical DifTertations dire&s only the Cuticle to be abraded, and thevariolous Matter to be fpread en the naked Skin, Skin Pitta a /.y.y.-Aj.-,.-.
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Se£t. I. Of Inoculation for the Small Pox. 307 Skin of the Arm, and having inferted a fmall Particle of the purulent Mattertaken from a mild kind of the Pock, the little Wound is then to be dreffedwith fome dry Lint, and covered with a Plafter. After the Operation the Pa-tient muft conftantly keep to his Chamber, the Air of which mould be mode-rately warm, and his Diet regulated by fome prudent Phyfician, by^whichmeans the Diforder will fhew itfelf in about feven or eight Days, withoutany malignant Symptoms ; and, if afiifted by a proper Regimen and moderateWarmth, it ufually runs gently through its feveral Stages. When the Patienthas once had the Diforder this way, though ever fo mild, we are affured byExperience that they never have it again ; and therefore the Opinion of tholefeems to be well grounded v/ho think the Propagation of the Small Pox by In-oculation might be of general Ufe and Benefit to Mankind, in preferving theLives of fome, and the moft important Members of others,

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