Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator].

  • Purmann, Matthias Gottfried, 1649-1711.
Date:
1706
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Credit: Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tient cannot move them ; whild your Man holds the Patient’s Head faft to his own Bread. The Patient’s Hands muft alfo be tyed fail to the Chair with Towels, that they may not hinder the Operator. This being done; if the Cataratt is in the Left-Eye, take the Needle in your Right- hand ; and if the Cataratt is in the Right-Eye, take the Needle into your Left-hand, and put it a fmall Straws breadth from the Outward Rin^ of the Pupil, into the Ccnjunttiva, always Oblique, and fo far till you fee the Point of the Needle comes to the middle of the Cataratt. Afterward proceed higher upward, as far as is requifite, turning the Needle gently about, and fo roll the Suffufion downwards with the Needle; but take care that you don’t prefs upon the Vv<ea- but roll or deprefs the Skin quite downwards, and hold it down for fome time, to prevent its rifing up again. If the Cataraft fhould be faftned at the Top, you muff endeavour to loofen and feparate it neatly, and afterwards deprefs it; but if there be no need to feparate the fmall Fib rat of the Cataraft, which ibmetimes fadens it to the Vv*a, you are happy, and have but half the Pains to take. If it Ihould happen otherwife, you mud fird loofen it, by turning the Needle, and then moving the Needle backward and forward, as in a manner cutting, feparate it and then deprefs it. When all this’is done, hold the Cataract down with the Needle for half a Minute or thereabouts’ Then pull the Needle a little towards you, and if the Cataraft does not rife again, pull the Needle gently quite out of the Eye; and with the 0- ther Hand, immediately prefs fome moidened Tragacanth or Sarcocolla Powder: Or as I commonly ufe, a Piece of Gold Leaf direftly upon the Orifice or Hole that was made in the Conjunttiva, to hinder the Running out of the Aqueous Humour, and to heal it up again. Dr. Solwgen mixes a little Saffron with the White of an Egg, and lays it on the Hole of the Eye. Then fhut up the Eye-lids, and over them the fird Day, apply thick linen Bolders dipt in the White of an Egg mixt with Rofe and Plan- tan Water warmed, and upon that again great Bolders over both Eyes: And for a Defensive, apply the following Mixture, always warm and well fhaked together. ^ Putce, Feniculi ana Aqu. Plant agin. Solani ana Jiij. Tutiat pot. Sacchar. Saturni oj. Sacchar. Cant. alb. Bij, wifce detur in Vitro. Some let the Bandage lie condantly upon the Eye Four or Five, yea, Nine Days together, and keep their Patients to fuch drift Rules, that they’ mud eat no Beef Mutton, or any Flefh-meat, and lie continually on their Backs in a dark Room, that no Light may come to their Eyes,* nor will they allow the Patient to move or dir, or hardly fpeak; but keep them like Prijoncrs in Chains. For my part, I allow* my Patients to lpeak as much, and as often as they pleafe, provided they don’t make too much Noife in talking ; they may alfo eat and drink what they have a mind to, and may lie on their Sides when they are weary of lying on their Backs. If on the Third or Fourth Day you find any Moiflure upon the Eye-lid, you may conclude, the Hole which W’as made in the Con- junttiva, is not yet healed, and therefore mud apply to it a fmall Piece of a Silver or Gold Leaf, or what elfe you think convenient, but as gently as is podible; and continue the afore-named Method for Ten Days more. Then open the Eye leifurely, view it well, and if it looks Red, you need not trouble your felf about it, for it’s nothing but a little Blood S mixed