An essay towards the improvement of some of the important instruments in surgery : and of the operations in which they are employed / by William Jardine, a surgeon of the Royal Navy.

  • Jardine, William.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay towards the improvement of some of the important instruments in surgery : and of the operations in which they are employed / by William Jardine, a surgeon of the Royal Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE. Preface, . . . ... . 1 On the Instruments of the Operation of the Trepan^ and the Method proposed for improving that Ope- ration, ... 23 The Raspatory and Cutter, . . . , 29 The Trephine, 33 Perforation of the Cranium by the Cutter and Saw, 3& How to cut the fractured or depressed Part of a Bone entirely out, . ..... 42 When a depressed Part is longitudinal, and not so extensive but it may be all cut out, how to do it, 44 How the Centre-pin of the Curved Saw or Cutter is to be rested when the Bone is to be cut in a larger Arch than it can be done by the Instrument resting on the denuded Part, ... 45 When a Depression is too large to be all cut out, how a part of it may, to raise the rest, . . 47 A Divisible Trephine, . . . . . 49 Directions how to use the Straight Saw in Operations of the Cranium, \ ' , BO b /