Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox].

Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758

Date:: 1755

Credit: Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$cranium, being loofe, were extracfted with the forceps : the wound was dreffed twice a-day with lint dippeddh honey of Vdfes, mixed with tindi:. maftiches 6c myrrhae, the found part .of the cranium, round the fradure, was drewed with pulvis maftiches & myrrhs at every drefting, which deterged the wound ; frefh granulations ftiboting forth from all parts, as well from the brain as cranium, the whole at length was cicatrized. To¬ wards the end, the wound was only drefted with dry lint and empl. de betbnica,'^ a deficcative, and was. quite healed by the middle'of September; The fear appeared as in plate i, fig. i. ' ' O B :S E R V A T I O N VH. Of a gufifjQt woundy the-ball entering under the rlght^eye,. pajjing out through the cranium and cerebrum above .the eary without hurting the eye orjight. m • '‘f’ ' f 'f ^_ TAR. Moller, profeftbr of phyfic at Giefen, liad an Heftian foldier brought to him, who had received a ftiot which' entered' under the right-eye, pafting obliquely upwards-,through,the. cerebrum and^cranium aboye^ the right-ear, as in tab. i, fig.'2,^ ftickiiig at fts exit between''the cranium and fcalp. In this cafe he firft adviled the furneon to make a crucial incifibri through the fkin of the upper wound,V prihcipally that h’e might extradt the ball with the forceps, and alfo-.to'exaniinp^ more particularly into the true ftate of the wound, in order to deterge and heal it 5 and ordered the furgeon to drefs both wounds with pledgets ''dippedr in the following bal- famic.,iBkture,:4uke-warm.. EIT. myrrhae ^ii. Mellis rofax. 2i.,ni., ,, 3 f . ,r „ A •rj \ • _ ■ I . ' t -p - ... « % 2. R. Pulver. Irid. Flbrent. ■ - .-Ariftolochiae' rot/ da '31. ——Myrrhs 3fs. •* •7:-^ SarCpebfc 9i. , r/,. ,, Aloes 9fs .* rh. ' The powder to be ftrewed externally over the lint. i o) birh hoisLio oil f ■ noffifr:.-/-) PnA For the wound of the flelhy part,. . / 3. RJPulv.-mafHche^ / .A .jr-,-:--.01ibani.Al .i.r|‘7, ,- My^rhae,^^•|fa.:;'^d .‘lord .lit ihnf; .rfbl ■ Aloes'iro .itjfti/I —• Therebinthina? In aq. lillor. conval. lot. Jiih tijjfjli m, f, unguent.- ■po ixljio ni ci/iv; T - **■ r. * -ii.iJiJ Li IDi!.. 'y Dfij ri{ L With$