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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is anothermethod of rolling in ufe, where the Windings of the Bandage are not fo frequent,and keep a greater diftance from each other, and are therefore called creepingBandages, in the French Schools Rempans; an Example of which you may fee inthe left Arm of the laft mentioned Figure at Letter G. Thefe creeping of fer-pentile Bandages are ufed to fecure ComprefTes or Cataplafms upon a difeafed Parr.where the LXXI. But left any one fhould be ignorant of the neateft and moft proper wayfiThtw be-°^aPPy^n§ thefe Bandages; you are diligently to obferve what follows; to wit,gin and end. when the Arm is to be drefTed, the beginning is formed by two or three circularWindings on the Wrift, afcending by loofe Spires to the Cubit or Shoulder asthe cafe ihall require; but when the beginning is to be on the Foot, it is to beformed by three or four circular Windings of the Bandage round the Tarfus andMetatarfus, then proceeding in a ferpentine Courfe up to the Knee, or, if the cafe requires s y.u
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INTRODUCTION. 23 requires it, up to the Head of the Thigh, and then, as it fometimes happens, de-fcending again ; but we fhould not neglect to mention in this place, that the be-ginning of the Bandage is fometimes applied even to the difeafed part, as inieveral kinds of Fractures; fometimes near it, above it, or below it, and fome-times at a great diftance from it, according to the Difpofition of the Wound: Onthe contrary, the extremity of the Bandage is fcarce ever fattened upon the dif-eafed part, but rather upon a found one, to avoid giving Paina; but we fhalltreat in a more particular manner of thefe things below. In this place it is fuffi-cient to give you the Heads of things in a general manner. LXXII. The neceffary Apparatus forDreffings feems by no means complete, of chords,without Ligatures, Chords, Bauds, and Strings, and thefe of different forts, fome **^ jj^fine, others coarfe, ftrong, made either of Flax, or Hemp or Cloth, or Silk, or Strings.Horfe-hair, according to the

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