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Transcriber's note:
A few typographical errors have been corrected; they are listed at the end of the text.
Page numbers enclosed by curly braces are included in the text to enable the reader to use the "Table of the Chapters" which is located at the end of the book.
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Whole ART
SURGERY
A Person skill'd in curing Diseases incident to Humane Bodies by a methodical Application of the Hand.
Because without a discerning Faculty he can have no certainty in what he doth.
Because Knowledge alone doth not endue him with a dexterity of Hand requisite in such a Person, which cannot be acquir'd but by Experience, and repeated Manual Operations.
To the End that by fit Applications he may asswage those Pains which he is oblig'd to cause his Patients to endure.
Four several ways.
The Operation to be perform'd may be known by its Definition; that is to say, by explaining what it is in it self: We may discover whether it ought to be done, by examining whether the Distemper cannot be cur'd otherwise: We may also judge whether it be possible or necessary, by a competent Knowledge of the Nature of the Disease, the Strength of the Patient, and the Part affected: Lastly, the manner of performing it may be found out, by being well vers'd in the Practice of Surgery.
They are Tumours, Impostumes, Wounds, Ulcers, Fractures, Dislocations, and generally all sorts of Distempers whereto Manual Operations may be applyed.
Yes, as when a simple and small Dislocation is only to be reduced.
Portable Instruments are those which the Surgeon carries in his Lancet-Case with his Plaister-Box; and not portable are those that he doth not carry about him, but is oblig'd to keep at home; the former being appointed for the ready help which he daily administers to his Patients, and the others for greater Operations.
Yes, because the Balsams, Ointments, and Plaisters contain'd therein, are means whereof the Surgeon makes use to restore Health.
Because without this exterior and general Knowledge, the Surgeon wou'd be often mistaken in the Judgment he is to pass concerning a Dislocation or Wound, inasmuch as it is by the Deformity which he perceives in the Member, that he knows the Dislocation, as it is also by the means of the Correspondence which the outward Parts have with the inward, that he is enabled to draw any certain Consequences relating to a Wound, which penetrates into the Body.
It is that whereof the whole Body is compos'd, and which partakes of a common Life or Sensation with it.
We may well reckon up Fifteen distinct Parts, which are the Bone, the Cartilage, the Ligament, the Tendon, the Membrane, the Fibre, the Nerve, the Vein, the Artery, the Flesh, the Fat, the Skin, the Scarf-Skin, the Hair, and the Nails.
It is the hardest and driest Part of the whole Body, and that which constitutes its principal Support.
It is a yielding and supple Part, which partakes of the Nature of a Bone, and is always fasten'd to its Extremities, to mollifie and facilitate its Motion.
It is a Membranous Contexture usually sticking to the Bones to contain them; as also sometimes to other Parts, to suspend, and retain them in their proper place.
It is the Tail or Extremity of the Muscles, made by the re-union of all the Fibres of their Body, which serves to corroborate it in its Action, and to give Motion to the Part.
It is a Nervous Part, the use whereof is to adorn and secure the Cavities of the Body on the inside, and to wrap up or cover the Parts.
They are fleshy Lines of which the Body of a Muscle is compos'd.
It is a long, white, and thin Body, consisting of many Fibres, enclos'd within a double Tunick, and design'd to carry the Animal Spirits into all the Parts, to give them Sense and Motion.
It is a Canal compos'd of Four Coats, that carreyth with a kind of Beating or Pulse even to the very Extremity of the Parts, the Blood full of Spirits, which proceeds from the Heart, to distribute to them at the same time both Life and Nourishment.
It is a Canal made likewise of Four Tunicles, which receives the Arterial Blood, to carry it back to the Heart.
It is a Part which is form'd of Blood thicken'd by the natural Heat; and that constitutes the Body of a Muscle.
It is a soft Body made of the Unctuous and Sulphurous part of the Blood.
It is a Net compos'd of Fibres, Veins, Arteries, Lymphatick Vessels and Nerves, which covers the whole Body to defend it from the Injuries of the Air, and to serve as a universal Emunctory: It is very thin in the Face, sticking close to the Flesh, and is pierc'd with an infinite number of imperceptible Pores, affording a Passage to insensible Transpiration.
It is a small fine Skin, transparent and insensible, having also innumerable Pores for the discharging of Sweat, and other Humours by imperceptible Transpiration: It is extended over the whole inner Skin, to dull its too exquisite Sense, by covering the Extremities of the Nerves which are there terminated. It also renders the same Skin even and smooth, and so contributes very much to Beauty.
The Hairs are certain hollow Filaments planted in the Glandules of the Skin, from whence their Nourishment is deriv'd. They constitute the Ornament of some Parts, cover those which Modesty requires to be conceal'd, and defend others from the injury of the Weather.
The Nails are a Continuity of the Skin harden'd at the end of the Fingers, to strengthen and render them fit for Work.
Because the Bones serve for the Foundation Connexion, and Support of all other Parts of the Body.
It is a gathering together, or Conjunction of all the Bones of the Body almost in their Natural Situation.
They are taken from their Substance, Figure, Articulation, and Use.
No, all the Bones are nourish'd by the Blood, as the other Parts; but the Marrow is to the Bones what the Fat is to the Flesh; that is to say, it is a kind of Oil or Unctuous Substance, which moistens, and renders them less brittle.
No, they follow the Temperament and Constitution of the Persons.
There are Fifteen in the Skull, and Forty six in the Face.
It is the principal Organ or Instrument of Motion; or it is a Portion of Flesh, wherein there are Veins, Arteries, Nerves, and Fibres, and which is cover'd with a Membrane.
No, some have them streight, others transverse, and others oblique or circular, according to the several Motions to which they are appropriated.
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