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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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XXIX, and was al-ways ufed by Ravi us, as being more ready and expeditious, than to truft toan Affiftant, v;ho may chance to be attending fomething elfe. A A A A thePouch itfelf, BB the Inftruments difpoled in their proper Order, C C the Sideor Cover to the Cafe, which may be fattened with the Buttons marked DD,that fo the Inftruments may be concealed from the Patients Sight, that theymay not deter him ; E E the Strings by which the whole is fattened roundthe Waift of the Lithotomift. CHAP. CXLIII. Concerning the Artifices ufed by Frier James, (Frere Jaques) in cuttingfor the Sto?ie; as afo on the lateral Operation o/Ravius. ADefcripti-I. A BOUT tlic End of the latt Century there was a famous French Litho*per°o^d -^^ tomitt, named Frere Jaques, who, at that Time, frequently per-Reception of forming that Operation in a peculiar manner, was the Subjeft of every onesJames at Thoughts and Difcourfc -, and even till this Day he has been fo much talked ram, o J 3 Ot /.fjr ^ ,jc. Tab. XXX.
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Part II. Frere Jaques Artifices m Lithotomy. 151 of among Surgeons and Lithotomifts, that we cannot well pais him by in Si-lence, without taking notice both of him and his Method, with the new Ar-tifices which he introduced in Lithotomy. About the Year 1697 this Perfon,who was an obfcure Monk, or Hermit, as fome call him, came to Faris fromfome of the Outparts of ^ France in a very milerable Condition, being both de-ftitute of Money, Viftuals, and Clothes ; but of an open and free Temper, hisSimplicity of Mind being judged conimendable by fome of the French Writers,Here he produced and fliewed almoft every Body the many Teftimonies of Pa-tients that he had happily cut and cured by his fafe and ready Method in thefeveral Provinces oiFrance; and tho his Artifices were yet unknown to any ofthe Surgeons, he made no Secret of em. As for the Reward of his Labour, herequired none, or at moft but very little, as much as would repair his Inftru-ments, pay for the mending of his Shoes, or the l

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