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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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nd Side A, Fig. 1. Tab. XXXVIII.the two Heads are then crofted upon the Shoulder at B, from whence its ante-rior Head defcends obliquely a-crofs the Breaft C, and its pofterior crofs theBack to the left Axilla D, (for we ftill here fuppofe the left Breaft amputated,or elfe only a large Schirrus extirpated from it) where its Roller-heads arecrofted, and drawn tight upon the ComprefTes and Dreffing on the BreaftF E, from whence they afcend again in the Direction C, and crofting upon theright Shoulder B and Axilla A, then up again to B, fo on feveral times in thefame Courfe as before, only obferve to make your fubfequent Croflings of theBandage rather upon the Dreffings EF, than under the Axilla D, for thegreater Firmnefs and Security. And, laftly, when your Bandage is near fpent,it muft terminate by two or three circular Rounds about the Thorax, and uponthe lower Part of the Dreffings from A to D, fattening its Ends where theyterminate by Pins or Suture. 1 XI. To four, p.w. Tab, jxxxvh.
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Se&. II. Bandages for the Thorax. jf ; XL To retain the Dreffings in moft of the common Diforders of the Breafts, Bandage fo*the double T Bandage of Heliodorus (Tab. XXXVIII. Fig. 2.) is generally Breaft. eufed ; which confifts of two fimple Bands or Slips of Linen, the one joinedperpendicularly to the Center of the other in the Shape of a T, whence itsName. But it perpendicular Part is flit up almoft to the End, which deno-minates its double, id that it forms a four-headed Bandage a a and bb> Fig. n.or elfe two diftinct Pieces may be fewed on at fome Diftance from each other,as in Fig. 10. like the Greek IT. The tranfverfe Band aay Fig. 10. and 11.ought to be long enough to tie round the Body, and about two or three Inchesbroad ; the direct or perpendicular Part of the Bandage ought alfo to be long,and broad enough to retain the Dreffings, and pafs over the Shoulders to tiebehind the Back round the circular Band. The tranfverfe Part of the Bandageis applied round the Thorax at

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