Identifier: generalsystemofs1743heis (find matches)
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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k, a Species of the Cataraft,and not a Diforder of the vitrious Humour, feated much deeper in the Eye, asthe Ancients have all along underftood by the Name.h;sExtra- XXXII. Wc bcforc obferved at N° XXVIII. that thofe Catarafts which haveoion of ca- efcaped through the Pupil, may be extrafted by an Incifion made in the Cornea \thecornea! but I havc been aflTured from England^ that this famous Oculift there boafted,that he could, and does extraft Catarads in this manner, which are even fixedbehind the Pupil and Uvea; but I could never yet learn the Truth of his AfTer-tion, or that he ever performed the Fact. CHAP. LVI. Of dilatmg ContraSlions of the Pupil. Defer; t^on ^- \I7^ ^^ °^ -^ •*^^- °^ ^^ Operation related to the foregoing, in whicho/thfa VV the Coats of the Eye are perforated by an Inftrument, almofl in the,• fame manner as in couching a Cataraft, in order to open an imperforated orcontratSled Pupil. The Difeafe we are now fpeaking .of is therefore fuch a to-tal n/.j j:_
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Se(5l. ir. ^f ^ contraBed Pupih 417 tal or clofe Contradlon of the Pupil, that it will not tranfinit Light enough tothe bottom of the Eye, to enable the Patient to fee Objefts diflinftly. Some-times this Diforder has grown up from Infancy, and fometimes it arifes froman intenfe Inflammation of the Eye, or fome fudden and violent Conftriftion ofthe Pupil from other Caufcs, with a Palfy of the ftrait Fibres in the Uvea, orwhen the internal Margin of that iMembrane, which conftitues the Pupil, isconcreted or joined to a Cataraft, or to fome part of a Cataraft, after the Ope-ration. The Cure of the Diforder is generally efteemed extremely difficult, ifnot altogether imprafticable; but the celebrated Mr. Cheselden has contriveda new Method of relieving this Diforder, which he has not only tried feveraltimes with Succefs, but alfo defcribed his Procefs in the Philofophical 1ranfa-Sfions, and in the Appendix to the fourth Edition of his Anatomy, which wefhall therefore give a PJace here in o

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