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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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ines are injured, that he may ufe all probable means ofhealing them. See above Chap. V. N. 4, 5.when the H- Small Wounds of the Inteftines, that dont exceed in Size the diameterSutureisnot of a Goofe Quill, fhould by no means be ftitched, but are beft left to Nature;tempted. if tney are left to themfelves, they will frequently unite much fooner than ifthey are irritated by the Suture : For Hitching ufually brings on great Pain,Inflammation and other bad Fymptoms. Therefore it will be much bet-ter to return them inftantly, (See Chap. VI. N. 5.) and to bleed the Patient toprevent Inflammation, advifing him to Reft and Abftinence.How the o- HI- But krge Wounds of the Inteftines, though they feldom admit of cure,peningisto are to be ftitched up with the Glovers Suture, before the Inteftine is returned,^perform- Xo perform this, you fhould be provided with a fine Needle threaded with Silk,an Afllftant fhould take hold of one part of the Gut, with a fine piece of Linen well filiate i. MJ.y.
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Chap. VI. O/Wounds of the Intejlmes. 6$ well aired before the Fire ; whilft the Surgeon fhould hold the other part in hisleft hand, and few up the whole Wound after the Glovers manner, leaving very .fmall fpaces between each Stitch, to wit, little more than a Mathematical Line.The laft Stitch mould be faftened with a Knot, but the other end fliould hang a-bout a foot out of the Abdomen, by which the Silk may be drawn out when theInteftine is healed. See Plate IV. Fig. 20. Some in this cafe prefer the interrup-ted Suture, becaufe it is performed with fewer Punctures, and therefore is not lia-ble to bring on fo great Inflammation. Garengeot propofes another methodof performing the Glevers Suture, in Operat. Chirurg. Artie, de Gajirorapbia..But, to fay truth, experience fhews us that very few are faved, whatever Sutureis made ufe of. IV. After this Operation is performed, the Wound of the Abdomen is next what is foto be taken care of, and flitched up as we have fhewn in the former chapte

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