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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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th Olive-oil, in which fome of theInftruments are to be dipped, in order to lubricate them, and make them pafsinto the Bladder with more Eafe. An Explanation of the Twenty Seventh Plate. Fig. I. Reprefents the Copper or Silver Pipe called a Catheter, which is chieflyufed in Women for difcharging the Urine in a SupprefHon, and to fearchfor the Stone. Fig. 2, 3, 4, 5. Are Silver Catheters of various Sizes, to be applied for thefame purpofes in male Subjeds, according to the different Age and Size ofthe Patients Body. The Letter A A denotes the Handle of the concealed Sil-ver Wire, whereby it is to be drawn out of the Cannula, when that may beneceffary ; BB the two oblong Apertures at the Extremity of the Inftrument,which admits the Urine to be difcharged; CC the Handles of the Cathe-ters. 0 Which has been long ago defcribed and figured by P. Francus m l\h. de Herniis.^ Others may be feen inMARiANus, Andreas a Cruce, Parey, P. Francos, Tolet,DioNis, Le Dran, &c. latJT. p.u7.^A^ xxvn.
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J.MtfTtdtrJ^-. Part II. Of Litliotomy h*y the Apparatus Major. 113 Fig. 6. Reprefcnts a Silver Catheter which is flexible, the Ufe of wliich isIbmetimes very neceflary and convenient to be left in the Bladder and Ure-thra to difcharge the Urine, when another Catheter muft be introduced feve-ral Times fucceffively, as when the urinary Paflage is totally occluded byfome Calculus, iic. in which Cafe the flexible Catheter may be commodiouf-ly left in the Bladder and Urethra, without endangering an Inflammation ofthofe Parts, by repeated Introduclions of the other kind of this Inftrument.The Letters A, B, C, denote the fame here as in the preceding Inftrument. Fig. 7. Reprefents a Silver Catheter of another kind, which is without the La-teral Apertures; having only one opening at its End marked A, which isfliut by the pyriform Button marked B, which is in a manner the End of theincluded Wire •, if the Handle of the Wire C be prefled forv/ards, the Buttoncomes out in the manner rcprefente

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