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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, 4, 5, 6. Reprefent the inftrumentsrecommended for opening fiftulas by Rungius, afurgeon of Bremen. Fig. i. ab a grooved probeor director, c d the handle, e the part where thedirector is ufually bent according to the courfe ofthe fiftula. Fig. 3. gives a direct view of thegroove in the director, as the preceding gave anoblique view. Fig. 4. ab reprefents a cannula tobe pa!Ted into the anus for the reception of theedge of the knife, marked Fig. 6. that it may nothinder the adjacent parts in cutting the fiftula,c d its handle inclined to the oppofite fide. Fig. 5.Reprefents a direct view of the cavity in this can-nula, that its diameter may be the better difcern-ed. Fig. 6. Reprefents a long and narrow fcal-pel, which in cutting for a fiftula is conductedthrough the groove of the director, Fig. 2. intothe cavity of the cannula, Fig. 4. Fig. A. Reprefents a feton needle, the pointof which is fhaped like a lancet; a the eye of theneedle, b the part which is to be fixed in a handle. TABLE
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