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Title: The elements of surgery : in which are contained all the essential and necessary principles of the art ; with an account of the nature and treatment of chirurgical disorders, and a description of the operations, bandages, instruments, and dressings, according to the modern and most approved practice ; adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ; illustrated with twenty-five copper-plates
Year: 1746 (1740s)
Authors: Mihles, Samuel
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative Surgery Surgery, Operative Surgery, Military
Publisher: London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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made proportionably above this mark,though the operation then becomes the moredangerous. TABLE R. Fig. 1. Reprefents the pofition of the furgeon,patient and afiiftants, for amputating the leg. athe patient feated in a chair, b the furgeon, c theafliftant holding the foot below the calf, d the af-fiftant holding the leg above the knee, e the vef-fei placed on the floor to catch what little bloodmay be fpilt in the operation. Fig. 2. Reprefents the manner of amputatingthe leg, fo as to preferve the calf to fold overthe extremities of the bones, ab denotes the firftincifion to be made by the two-edged fcalpel re-prefented in Tab. O. Fig. 3. b c the courfe of theiecond incifion, by which the flefh of the calf isfeparated from the bones of the leg. c d the placewhere the bones of the leg are amputated. Someindeed reverfe this courfe of the incifion, andfirft perforate the calf with the two-edged fcalpel,according to the line c, and then they directthe knife in the courfe ba. Fig. 3- TaS.K
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( 3°7 ) Fig. 3. Shews the manner of reflecting backthe calf of the leg towards the ham, after it hasbeen feparated from the bones by incifions ; whichdone, the furgeon next divides the integuments,fleih and periofteum in the line b, and then fawsthrough the bones in the fame place. Fig. 4. Reprefents a leg juft amputated in thismanner, with the calf a depending, fo that onemay fee the ends of the bones; b the tibia, c thefibula. Fig. 5. Reprefents a leg thus amputated withthe calf a brought over and joined to the flump#, c denotes part of the thigh. Fig. 6. Reprefents the manner of fixing thefcrew-tourniquet, Tab, N. upon the thigh beforeamputations, &c. TABLE S. Fig. 1. A reprefents the grand kerchief or ca-pital bandage ufed after trepanning, and in woundsof the head, but reprefented more particularly byFig. 2. —BC reprefent the napkin and fcapula-ry. D the manner of applying the ligature afterbleeding in the arm. E denotes the bandagecalled a ftirrup to be applied after blee

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