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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more clearly from what you will read below.Of the T LXVI. There remains ftill to be defcribed a compound Bandage, made of twoiidk(hri,l Pieces of Cloth, almoft in the form of the Letter T. as you fee it is defcribed atLetter h, its upper part is brought round the Belly and faftened by a Knot, butthe lov/er part paflfes under the Body between the Thighs, and being brought upagain, is faftened to the upper part upon the Back. Thefe Bandages plainly ap-pear to be defigned for the Security of fuch DrelTings as fhall be thought properto be applied to the Ayms, or Parts of Generation. Some, from the Inventor,call it Heliodoruss Bandage, from its Shape it is called the T Bandage, and fome-times from the Divifion that is frequently made in the lower part of it, it is calledthe double T. The Explanation of the Second Plate, vjhich exhibits thofe things which are princi-pally reqiiired in Dreffings, taken chiefly froinT)lom%, , A and B, Scraped Lint, commonly called Plednts, CDE, /■/.It.- -2
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INTRODU C no N. n C D E, Dqffils^ which are compofed of Lint, worked into the Likenefs ofOlives, or Da6tyle Stones. Fand G, the fame with the Addition of a Thread tied round them. H and I, larger Pledgits made of Tow. K L M, reprefent Tents of different Sizes made of Lint. N, fliews you a very large Tenty with a Thread annexed to it. O, a Conical Tent ftill larger than the former, made alfo of Lint. P Q_R S T V X, Tubes of different kinds made of Silver or Lead. Number i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. different Forms of Plqfters, Num. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. different Sorts of Co;;?^ri?^j. Num. 19. three Sorts of Comprejfes refembling the Form of an Aflerifm. Num. 20. Balls of Lint which are fometimes ufed as Comprejfes, Num. 21, A fmall fquare Comprefs. Num. 22. Several fmail flender Comprejfes. Of Bandages. a. A fimple Bandage not rolled up. b. A Bandage of one Head; that is, rolled up at one end, c. A double-headed Bandage, that is one rolled up at both ends. d. A four-he

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