Identifier: elementsofsurger00mihl (find matches)
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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w, and make way for thedifcharge of its matter, as well as for the appli-cation of medicines; c a fmgle plafter of the likekind. Fig. i. Exhibits another manner of makingthe dry future by flicking plafters, ufed by theancients, which are faftened together by hooksand eyes bbb, or by a firing drawn through themin the manner reprefented by aaa -, and this me-thod has the advantage of the former, inafmuchas by fhortening the firing, the lips of the woundmay be more clofely approximated without remo-ving the flicking plafters. Fig. 3. A large crooked needle, with a doublethread, to make the quilled and other futures inlarge wounds, a the needle arched, b the doublethread, c the bow end of the thread. Fig. 4. a a denotes a large tranfverfe woundunited by a triple interrupted future bbb. Fig. 5. Reprefents another tranfverfe woundunited by the quilled future of Palfinus •, aa, bb aretwo cylindrical rolls of filk or linnen fpread withfome cerate or plafter, ccc the flip-knots of the thread
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a 4 **L*> 4 ^ =^^ c* I ( 289 ) thread tied upon the roll of emplafter on the up-per lip of the wound, while the other roll thatlies upon the other lip of the wound is intercept-ed by the bow end of the threads eee. Fig. 6. Reprefents the future of Celjits (lib. 7,cap. 16.) for performing the operation of Gaftro-raphia in wounds of the abdomen. But this me-thod is at prefent out of practice, as it too muchconfines and inflames the lips of the wound j a athe flitches traverfing each other, b the ends ofthe threads tied in a knot. Fig. 7. Reprefents the glovers future, madeFor wounds of the interlines 5 a the thread, b b thewound of the interline, c the beginning of thefuture, d the end of the future faftened by a knot, Fig. 8, 9. Reprefent the twilled future made foruniting the hare-lip and other wounds, being madewith one, two, three, or more needles, accordingto the length of the wound ; a a the wound, bbthe needle pafTed through the lips of the woundscc the thread twilled round th

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