A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / By Samuel Sharpe.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1782
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Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers ... / By Samuel Sharpe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proper to be employed after each Ope- ration; but as the manner of applying them can hardly be learnt from a De- fcription only, or if it could, there is fo little to be faid on that Subjed-, but v/hat rnuil: be copied from others, that I have forborn to follow the Ex- ample ; though, to fay the Truth, the Furpole of Bandage being chiefly fo maintain the due Situation of a DrelT- ing, or to make a Comprefs on par- ticular Parts, Surgeons always turn a Roller with thofe Views, as their Dif- cretion and Dexterity guide them, without any Regard to the exad Rules laid down in thefe Defcriptions, which are almofl; impofilble to be re- tained' in the Memory without a con- tinual Pradice of them, and therefore we fee are not much attended to. In the firfl; Edition of this Treatife. I aflerted {p. 99.) that the Hemor- rhage, which fometimes enfues in the , Lateral
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