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The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles].

  • Mihles, Samuel
Date:
1764
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The elements of surgery ... Adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ... / [Samuel Mihles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A, D. Every thing being fecured and finish¬ ed, the Patient may be put to Bed, and ac¬ cording to what Blood has been loft in the Operation, and the Strength of the Patient, it may be neceflary or not to bleed and if the Pain Should be Severe, an Opiate may be adminifter’d 5 afterwards it will be proper, during the Cure, to keep the Patient's Body open by laxative Medicines; and fuch a Regimen muft be obferved, both in Medicine and Diet, as will beft Secure her from a Re- lapfe. In the Neck, there are frequently another Species of Scirrhous Tumours or Glands, which when moveable, free from Pain, and attended with a good Habit of Body, may be difledted out with Care, and will heal eafily, and if they extend up to the Chin towards the Mouth fo as to occafion a Divifion of the Salival Duel in operating, when the Wound will not heal by other Methods, it may be cured by making a Perforation in¬ to the Mouth where the Cheek is wounded, which being kept open Some time by a Tent or Seton till the internal orifice becomes fiftu- lous, the external Wound may be eafily heal’d, and the Saliva will difeharge into the Mouth. ^ 228. How do you perform the Ope¬ ration for the Empyema ? A> When it is neceflary to perform this Opera-