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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obliquely fram the left Side of the Occiput, andmeeting with the other hke the Ribs of a Boat; add the circular Rounds a-bout the Head, in which the Bandage terminates. Fig. 7. Denotes the knotted Bandage for arteriotomy in the Temples; ab thefirft Round made by the two Roller-heads, the middle of which being ap-plied upon the found Temple, is brought round in the Direction a b, andcrofled upon the Comprefs on the divided Artery r, fo as to form a Knot orProtuberance, after which they pafs round the Head in the oppofite Courled, e, under the Chin, and over the Vertex to the found Temple, where theycfofs again as before at e. Fig. 8. Litt. a, b, c, d, e, denote the-fame Bandage ; but with this Difference,.that here the Knot/ is made behind the parotid or falival Gland, here fup-pofed to be extirpated. Fig. 9. Shews the Capeliyie for an Hydrocephalus, a the depending End refle£ledback from the Forehead to the Occiput, b c the circular Round about the Head;. latji. f: :ij.f. Iab. :y:xx\
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Sed. II. Explanation of t/je Thirty-seventh Plate. 30^ Head; d, e, /, ^, h, the other obhque or reflex Turns which inveft theHead.Fig. 10. Demonftrates the Bandage denominated Monoadus, for the binding upof one Eye; a a denote the firft Round which pafies from the Occiput roundthe Ear and Cheek, over the left Eye, and then over the Forehead b to itsbeginning at the Occiput •, ccc the circular Rounds about the Temples iawhich the Bandage terminates. Fig. II. Exhibits the Monoculus formed of a Handkerchief rolled up, and tiedobliquely about the Head. Fig. 12. Reprefents the Binoculus for invefling both Eyes, applied by bringingthe Bandage from the Forehead to the Occiput in the Direftion a be, overthe left Eye, and croffing on the Occiput, it then covers the right Eye in theCourfe d e f, returning to the Occiput, and is finally fpent in the circularTurns _g-^_g- over both the Eyes. Fig. 13. Shews the Method of applying the Sling for the Nofe; a the Aper-ture in the middle of the Banda

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