. 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. utting of a fiftula when it is very-hard and callous; /denotes where the inftrumentterminates, without the part df, by which meansit more commodioufly performs its office, t
. 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. utting of a fiftula when it is very-hard and callous; /denotes where the inftrumentterminates, without the part df, by which meansit more commodioufly performs its office, than ifit were of the whole length here reprefented. Fig. 4, 5, 6, 7. Reprefent feveral common fy-ringotomi of the ancients, of different fizes andcurvatures, and furnifhed either with obtufe orfharp points, according to the different circum-flances of fiflulas ; in thefe the part which cuts ismarked ab^ c the probe end, dd the convex andobtufe back. Fig. 8. Denotes a flexible filver probe or wirebent in fuch a manner, that the part a being in-troduced through the orifices of the fiftula, andbrought towards the other end, a fpace is form-ed for intercepting and extending the parts of thefiftula to be incifed. TABLE I. Fig. 1. A pair of large forceps or cutting-pin-cers to take off fplinters or fragments of bones ;but they will cut eafier provided the handles aremade two or three inches longer than the figure. Bg. 2,. 1 mm a V \£/ 1 ( 297 ) Fig. 2. Is a large crooked needle ferving topafs ligatures under wounded veffels, in order toconftringe them ; and if it be made proportiona-bly larger, it may ferve to convey ligatures undera cancerous breaft, in order to elevate the fame inextirpation. Fig. 3. Reprefents a pafteboard cafe, in whicha fractured arm is to be lodged, after it hasbeen itt and dreffed. The fize of this is to beadapted to that of the limb. Fig. 4. Is a polyfpafton or compound pullyufed to extend fractures, when the ftrength of thehands is not fufficient. ah a
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