Identifier: treatiseonoperat00shar (find matches)
Title: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abcesses, and ulcers
Year: 1769 (1760s)
Authors: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgery Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: London : Printed for Robinson and Roberts
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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s wounded, the Effufion of Bloodwould not in all probability be mortal, (asI have (een. in two Inftances,) yet at beft itwould be very troublefome; and fince weare not ftraitened in that part of the Craniumfor room, I think it is advifeable to forbearoperating in this Place. The bony Sinufesof the Os Frontis, forbid the ufe of theTrepan near the Orbits of the Eyes; there-fore if it mould be deprefled near thofe Ca-vities, the Surgeon mull be careful to perfo-rate either above, or on one fide of the Frac-ture ; for fawing below it, will only leadinto the Sinus, and anfwer no Purpofe inthe deiign either of giving a Difcharge tothe Matter from the Brain, or an opportu-nity to elevate the Depreflion j nay, perhapsleave an incurable Fiftula, if the Patientefcapes with Life. The Os Occipitis. being very uneven, bothifTits internal and external Surface, makesTrepanning there almoft impracticable; be-fides, the great Sinufes run about fo much ofit, as hardly to afford fpace to perforate with-
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Operations c/Surgery, irx without danger ofwounding them j butthen it is fo defended from Injuries by itsSituation and Strength, that Fra&ures donot happen to it fo often as to the otherBones of the Cranium -, and when they do,for the mod part, they become fo foon mor-tal, by affecting the Cerebellum which itfuthins, that the Operation is feldom re-quired in this cafe. Indeed the upper An-gle of this Bone lies above the Cerebellum*and when fractured or depreffed, is not at-tended with fo immediate Danger ; but whenthis happens, the courfe of the longitu-dinal Sinus down the middle of it, andthe neighbourhood of the lateral Simijes be-neath it, make it advifeable to trepan at thelower part of the Os Parietale, or at leaf!upon or jufl below the Lambdoidal Suture9fo that the Perforation of the Os Occipitiscan hardly ever be proper. It may be obfervedl have fpoken of Woundsof the Cerebellum as proving inevitably mor-tal, when affected by a Fracture: Howlong a Patient may continue with

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