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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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Se&. V. Of the H ydro-Sa rcocje l e. 73 Balfam : But as the fpermatic Veffels are not corrupted fo high as the Abdo-men, a Ligature mould then be made about thofe Veffels in the Inguen,and the morbid Teflicle is to be extirpated as we have before directed. CHAP. CXXIV. Of the Hydrops Scrotalis and Pudendi. THE Pudenda in both Sexes are often fubjecl to dropfical Swellings, froma laxity of the Parts and redundancy of Water in the Blood, which in-fmuating into the cellular Membrane next the Skin, makes it retain the Printof one Finger, and fometimes almoft buries the Penis. When the Scrotumis chiefly aftedted, the Water is lodged between its external Coats, and parti-cularly in the cellular Membrane, which diftinguifhes the Diforder an Hydro-cele. Sometimes the Pudenda alone are inflated with an hydropical Tumor ;but it more frequently accompanies an /inafarca, or Dropfy of the whole Habit:In which Cafe a Cure can be hardly expected, until the general Diforder isfirft relieved. But

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