The chirurgical candidate, or, Reflections on education indispensable to complete naval, military and other surgeons : the manner of obtaining an appointment in either service is shewn; remarks on the most eligible, and their several advantages ... and on various subjects / by Charles Dunne.

  • Dunne, Charles
Date:
1808
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Credit: The chirurgical candidate, or, Reflections on education indispensable to complete naval, military and other surgeons : the manner of obtaining an appointment in either service is shewn; remarks on the most eligible, and their several advantages ... and on various subjects / by Charles Dunne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 he surgeon is to be always in possession of a comple e set of instruments*, and also a field self, for more immediate use. Hospital necessaries and utensils ought to be furnished for forty patients (when the regiment is one thousand strong); viz. forty cotton nightcaps and forty sets of bedding, in the proportion of four to every hundred men. Each hospital should have a slipper bath, two water-buckets one dozen of Osnaburgh towels, one dozen flannel cloths, half dozen large sponges, combs, razors, and soap; two large kettles, capable of. making soup for thirty men; two large ^tea-kettles, two large tea-pots, two saucepan's, forty tin cans of one pint each, forty spoons, * A COMPLETE SET OF INSTRUMENTS, WITH THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, FOR REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS.-An amputate saw with spare blade, , metacarpal saw with ditto, 24 curved lie, .lies, 2 amputating knives, 1 catlin, 2 tenaculems, 1 bullet forceps, 1 Pa,r of bone rippers, 2 screw tourniquets, 4 field tourniquets with handle, 2 calico compresses, 2 trephines with sliding keys, ! trephine forceps, 1 elevator, 1 lenticular, a brush• key instruments for teeth, to fit trephine handle j 8 scalpels, 2 silver catheters, 1 trocar with spring- and introductory canula; 1 ditto, ditto, and canula for hydro- cele, 1 probang, 1 long silver probe, and 1 large bougie. t A COMPLETE SJ-T OF INSTRUMENTS FOR THE FIELD, WITH THE modern improvements.—An amputating saw, 1 metacarpal saw, 12 curved needles, 1 amputating knife, ] catlin, j screw tourni- quet, l silver catheter, 1 elastic ditto, 2 trephines to fit one handle, 1 trephine forceps, 1 elevator, 2 scalpels, 1 bullet forceps, 1 trocar with spring and introductory canula, 1 trocar with spring canula for hydro- cele, a brush, a tenaculem, and thread for ligatures.