Identifier: generalsystemofs00heis (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: 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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refents the Inftrument termed a Dilatator by the Generality of Sur-geons, being the moft fimple of the kind defcribed by any Audior, andferving to dilate the Wound made in Lithotomy •, though the Inftrumentis at prefent hardly ever made ufe of. The Beak A, like a Cranes Bill,is inferted into the Wound, and the two Arms (BB) being prehed to-gether, the Beak of the Inftrument opens by means of the Hingemarked C. Fig. 9. Shews a commodious Table adapted for performing the Operation ofLithotomy, marked at each Corner with the Letters AAAA. The Let-ter B denotes the Place upon which the calculous Patient is to be feated, be-ing made hollow, or femilunar, that the two Angles AA may the more com-modioufly fupport the Feet. C the Prop for fupporting the Patients Back ;which, for the greater Conveniency, is capable of being elevated or depreffedmore or lefs, to raife the Patient higher or lower, as the Surgeon may feeproper, by means of the iron Rod marked D. 2 XII. We /W.a.p.420.TAB. xxvnr.
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Part II. Of Lithotomy ly the Apparatus Major. 121 XII. We have already explained the Manner in which the Operation is to be ~ anfl °fperformed, and Stone extracted by theSurgeon; it therefore now only remains for terthe o;e-us to defcribe the Dreffing and Regimen, and to propofe a few Cautions. The^ation,Patients Wound being cleanfed with a Sponge, and the Ligatures untied, he is firft of ail to be placed immediately in a Bed, covered with an Oil-cloth, orone that has been waxed, over which may be laid a Linen-meet folded togetherimmediately under the Patient, to prevent the Bed and Pillow from being (pott-ed by the Blood and Urine difcharged from the Wound, for a few Days after theOperation. The Patient being in this Manner properly difpofed, the Woundis to be dreffed with fome Doffils of fcraped Lint. If the Patient be ftrong,and his Wound bleeds, it may be proper to let it continue fo for a while, in or-der to reftrain or prevent an Inflammation, as Celsus advifes : But if there b

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