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 (14586973120)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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reprefented at Fig. 9. Tab. XXIX, and was al-ways ufed by Ravius, as being more ready and expeditious, thantotrufttoan Afliftant, who may chance to be attending fomething elfe. AAAA thePouch itfelf, BB the Inftruments difpofed in their proper Order, CC the Sideor Cover to the Cafe, which may be faftened with the Buttons marked DD,that fo the Inftruments may be concealed from the Patients Sight, that theymay not deter him ; EE the Strings by which the whole is faftened roundthe Waift of the Lithotomift. CHAP. CXLIII. Concerning the Artifices ufed by Frier James, (Frere Jaques) in cuttingfor the Stone; as alfo on the lateral Operation of Ravius. fn^fthf £ A BOUT the End of the laft Century there was a famous French Li-Perfonand JT\. thotomift, named Frere J aques, who at that Time frequently per-uCMPEs°a0f f°rminS tnat Operation in a peculiar manner, was the Subject of every oneseJii,s Thoughts and Difcourfe j and. even till this Day he has been fo much talked of tztjr. rye. Tab xxx.
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Part IL Frere JaqueV Artifices in Lithotomy. 151 of among Surgeons and Lithotomifts, that we cannot well pafs him by in Si-lence, without taking notice both of him and his Method, with the new Ar-tifices which he introduced in Lithotomy. About the Year 1697 this Perfon,who was an obfcure Monk, or Hermit, as fome call him, came to Paris fromfome of the Outparts ofa France in a very miferable Condition, being both de-ftitute of Money, Victuals, and Clothes; but of an open and free Temper, hisSimplicity of Mind being judged commendable by fome of the French Writers.Here he produced and fliewed almoft every Body the many Teftimonies of Pa-tients that he had happily cut and cured by his fafe and ready Method in the fe-veral Provinces of Frame ; and though his Artifices were yet unknown to any ofthe Surgeons, he made no Secret of them. As for the Reward of his Labour,he required none, or at moft but very litde, as much as would repair his Inftru-ments, pay for the mending of his Shoes, or t