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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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with Ung. de Alth. and inferted into the Cavity of the Scrotum,where it is to remain for the Space of twenty four Hours. This prevents theWater from returning •, and therefore the Tent fhould be gradually diminifhed,as the Cavity is contradted, and the Tumor fhould be drefled with an emollientPlafter. When a good Suppuration enfues, the Tent is to be dreffed withUng. digejl. Galeni, and ung. rofat. is to be conveyed into the Cavity of theScrotum. In about feven Days Time the Sinus is to be cleanfed, and theWound incarned and healed, keeping the Patient to a proper Regimen.Much the fame Pradlice was alfo described before that Author by Ruysch %who fays, the Scrotum is to be opened in its upper Part on one Side, inferringan oblong Tent, drefled with Utig. rofac. cum Merc, pracip. rub. till a gentle = Vide ScuLTETi Armament. Chlrurg. Tab. XL. Fig. I. where this is Ihewn. Prattica delta priiicipali operazioni, isc. Pag. 230,■^ Adverfar. Anatom. Dec. IL 22. Inflam- T^,JI P.T2. T.\BXn-
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Sed. V. (9//i)^ Hydrocele. y\ Inflammation follows, attended with a mild Suppuration,whereby the Membranes,in which is the Seat of the Diforder, will be digefted off, and fliould be ex-tracted with a Tenaculum; by which Method I have known many obtain aperfeft Cure. But it lliould be obferved, that the Pracftice thefe Authors recom-mend, will fucceed only when the Tefticle is found : For if we are affured, ormay reafonably fuppofe it vitiated, it will be moft advifeable to follow the firftor fecond of the Methods here dcfcribed, for performing the Ctiratio perfe^a. X. There is ftill another Method praftifed by itinerant Medicafters, by Anotherwhich they make an Incifion in the Inguen, and tearing the Scrotum off the ^^^^•Tefticle, they extirpate it together with the Procefs of the Peritonseum, not-withftanding both of them are in a found State, as they alfo do in the Entero-cele, which we before obferved. But I think they ought to be feverely repre-hended, and puniflied for their Ba

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