Chirurgorum comes, or, The whole practice of chirurgery begun by the learned Dr. Read ; continued and completed by a Member of the College of physicians in London.

THE TABLE.

BOOK I.

• PRaecognita, concerning the Definition, and Parts of Chirurgery. Page 1.
• CHAP. I. The general Doctrine of Tumors. Page 8.
• II. The general Indications of Cure in Tumors. Page 15.
• III. Of the four times of a Tumor, and the Indica∣tions taken from them. Page 20.
• IV. Of Curing of a Tumor come to Suppuration. Page 22.
• V. Of a Phlegmon. Page 28
• VI. Of an Erysipelas. Page 37.
• VII. Of an Oedema. Page 43.
• VIII. Of a Scirrhus. Page 50.
• IX. Of Aqueous Tumors. Page 56.
• X. Of a Flatulent Tumor. Page 60.
• XI. Of the Kings Evil. Page 62.

BOOK II.

• CHAP. I. Wherein the Authors, and Defini∣tion of Ʋlcers are set down. Page 67
• II. Of the Causes of Ʋlcers. Page 70
• III. Of the general Differences and Signs of Ʋlcers. Page 75
• IV. Of the general Prognosticks of Ʋlcers. Page 77
• V. Of the general Cure of Ʋlcers, and their Times. Page 80
• VI. Of Medicaments befitting Ʋlcers in general, and First, of repelling Medicaments. Page 83
• VII. Of the Cure of a plain and a hollow Ʋlcer, being simple. Page 91
• VIII. Of compound, but milder, Ʋlcers, in general. Page 95
• IX. Of the differences of the milder sort of compound Ʋlcers, and First, of a sinuous Ʋlcer, without any callosity. Page 100
• X. Of the Palliative Cure of a sinuous Ʋlcer, with Callosity in general. Page 105
• XI. Of the Cure of Fistula's in general. Page 111
• XII. Of Fistula Lachrymalis. Page 116
• XIII. Of Fistula's in the Breast Page 122
• XIV. Of Fistula's in the Belly and Joynts. Page 128
• XV. Of an Herpes exedens. Page 135
• XVI. Of Phagedaena and Nome. Page 141
• XVII. Of a Cancer and a Cancerous Ʋlcer. Page 147
• XVIII. Of the Leprosie, and Leprous Ʋlcers. Page 155
• XIX. Of abating superfluous Flesh. Page 161

• XX. Of scaling corrupt Bones. Page 166
• XXI. Of a discoloured and varicous Ʋlcer. Page 172
• XXII. Of a venemous and lousie Ʋlcer. Page 179
• XXIII. Of Ʋlcers of the hairy Scalp. Page 186
• XXIV. Of Ʋlcers of the Ears, and Ophthalmia. Page 193
• XXV. Of the rest of the Ʋlcers of the Eye. Page 201
• XXVI. Of an Ozaena. Page 209
• XXVII. Of Ʋlcers of the Mouth. Page 216
• XXVIII. Of Ʋlcers of the Lungs. Page 221
• XXIX. Of Ʋlcers of the Back, the Abdomen, and Joints. Page 227

BOOK III.

• CHAP. I. Of the description of a Wound, the differences, and general Fountains of special Prognostications. Page 233
• II. Of Symphysis, and Syssarcosis, and the means of staying an immoderate Flux of Blood in a Wound. Page 238
• III. Of removing extraneous Bodies from a Wound. Page 245
• IV. Of the preservation of the Temperature of the Part, by the right ordering of things not natural. Page 251
• V. Of the fifth and sixth Duties belonging to a Chi∣rurgeon in Curing a Wound. Page 256
• VI. Of the common Symptoms of Wounds. Page 261
• VII. Of the stitching of Wounds. Page 266
• VIII. Of Agglutinative Medicaments and Rolling. Page 272
• IX. How a Wound is to be Cured after the Second In∣tention. Page 277.
• X. Of a Convulsion in Wounds. Page 283
• XI. Of a Palsie and Crudity in a Wound. Page 289
• XII. Of a Wound made by a poison'd Weapon. Page 295
• XIII. Of a Wound by the biting of a mad Dog. Page 301
• XIV. Of a Wound made by the biting of an Adder. Page 307
• XV. Of Wounds made by Gun-shot. Page 313

• XVI. Of the means to avert Humors from the wou••••∣ed Head. Page 319
• XVII. Of the rest of the points common to most Wounds of the Head. Page 324
• XVIII. Of Wounds of the parts placed above the Scull. Page 329
• XIX. Of the general points to be observed in the Wounds of the Scull. Page 334
• XX. Of the Section of the hairy Scalp, and opening the Scull. Page 339
• XXI. Of the Cure of Fractures, appearing in the wounded part. Page 346
• XXII. Of Fractures in other than in the place wound∣ed, and those which happen when the Cutis Mus∣culosa is not wounded. Page 350
• XXIII. Of Wounds of the Meninges and the Brain. Page 354
• XXIV. Of the Cure of Wounds of the Face. Page 363
• XXV. Of the Cure of Wounds, which happen to the Instruments of the Senses. Page 368
• XXVI. Of Wounds of the vessels of the Thorax. Page 374
• XXVII. Of Wounds of the other parts of the Neck. Page 378
• XXVIII. Of Wounds of the Breast. Page 382
• XXIX. Of the Cure of a Fistula of the Breast fol∣lowing a Wound thereof. Page 388
• XXX. Of Wounds of the Abdomen or lower Belly, which penetrate, and yet without any hurt of the parts contained. Page 392
• XXXI. Of penetrating Wounds of the Belly, where∣in some of the Parts contained are wounded; and First, of the Wounds of the Parts appointed for Chylification. Page 396

• XXXII. Of Wounds of the Parts that help Sangui∣fication and Procreation. Page 401
• XXXIII. Of Wounds of the Nervous Parts. Page 406
• XXXIV. Of Wounds of the Joints. Page 410

AN APPENDIX Concerning Chirurgeons Reports before a Magistrate, upon their view of a wounded Person.

• SECT. I. Whence the Reason of Mortal Wounds is to be taken, What Wounds are safe, and what indifferent? Page 415
• II. In what parts of the Body Wounds are mortal? Page 418
• III. By what tokens Parts, whose Wounds are mortal, may be deprehended to be wounded? Page 422
• IV. What Wounds may b called safe, and wha dan∣gerous? Page 425
• V. Of what nature Wounds of the Head may be reck∣oned to be? Page 427
• VI. How it may be determined, whether a Man died of his Wound, or of some other Cause. Page 430

• VII. How it comes to pass, that Men die of small Wounds, and such as are not mortal? Page 431
• VIII. On what days the secret Malignity of Mortal Wounds uses to shew it self? Page 433
• IX. How we may know, whether a Man died of a Blow, or Contusion, and some Opinions about it. Page 435
• X. What are the Signs of such, as being beaten died, but of no conspicuous Wound? Page 436
• XI. How many ways People may be suffocated by an external Cause? Page 437
• XII. What are the signs of external Suffocation? Page 437
• XIII. Of such as are suffocated by inspiration of a hot and strange Air. Page 439
• XIV. Divers effects of Thunder, whence signs of it may be taken? Page 440
• XV. Divers marks of such as have been slain by Thunder. Page 442
• XVI. How a Chirurgeon may be able to predict some hurts of the Functions in some Wounded parts? First, What is the Instrument of voluntary Moti∣on? Page 443
• XVII. What Cuts of the Muscles do hurt, what Mo∣tions in general? Page 445
• XVIII. Some general Instructions very useful for Predictions. Page 446
• XIX. What harm Wounds of the Forehead and up∣per Eye-lid do? Page 447
• XX. The Functions of the Cheeks and Lips; also of the lower Jaw, and Mastication, by the Wounds of what parts they are hurt? Page 449
• XXI. By the Wounds of what parts the Motions of the Head are hindred? Page 451

• XXII. What Functions Wounds of the Arms do in∣commode? Page 452
• XXIII. What Functions are hurt by Wounds of the Hand? Page 454
• XXIV. What harm is done by the Wounds of the Thighs and Legs. Page 455
• XXV. What Wounds of such or such Nerves, and of such or such parts of the Spine, do hurt the Motions of this, or the other part? Page 457
• XXVI. Of Maiming. Page 459
• XXVII. Three sorts of Maiming. Page 460
• XXVIII. The Opinion of Physicians concerning the signification of a Member. Page 462
• XXIX. A more exact account of the true significati∣on of a Member. Page 463
• XXX. Of Disfiguring. Page 464
• XXXI. The general Notion and Explication of Beau∣ty. Page 464
• XXXII. The definition of Beauty more particularly explained. Page 467
• XXXIII. The nature of Beauty yet further explain∣ed. Page 469
• XXXIV. Of a Cicatrix, or Scar. Page 470
• XXXV. In what Parts, and for what Reasons, a Scar is more or less deformed? Page 471
• XXXVI. Some Cautions in judging of Scars, Page 472

BOOK IV.

• CHAP. I. Of the Definition, Differences, Causes, and Signs of Fractures. Page 475
• II. How an Inflammation in Fractures may be pre∣vented? Page 477
• III. Of Curing a transverse Fracture, without a Wound; and First, of joyning together the Parts of the broken Bone. Page 478
• IV. How the Parts of the broken Bone may be kept united? Page 480
• V. How the substance of the Bone may be kept sound? Page 483
• VI. Of breeding a Callus in Fractures. Page 485
• VII. Of Symptoms attending a Fracture; and of a Fracture of the Knee-pan. Page 486
• VIII. Of Curing a Fracture with a Wound, where∣in neither the Bone is made bare, nor the coming away of any piece of Bone is expected. Page 490
• IX. Of a Fracture with a Wound, wherein the Bone is not made bare; but we look for a piece of Bone to come away. Page 491
• X. Of a Fracture with a Wound, in which the Bone is made bare. Page 494

BOOK V.

• CHAP. I. Of the Definition, Differences, Causes and Signs of Luxations in general. Page 496
• II. The Cure of a Luxation in general. Page 499
• III. Of particular Luxations: and first of Luxa∣tions of the Jaw-bone. Page 501
• IV. Of a Luxation of the Shoulder. Page 503
• V. Of a Luxation of the Clavicle or Collar-bone. Page 508
• VI. Of the Luxation of the Elbow. Page 509
• VII. Of the Luxation of the Carpus, Metacar∣pus, and Fingers. Page 511
• VIII. Of the Luxation of the Thigh. Page 512
• IX. Of the Luxation of the Knee. Page 514
• X. Of the Luxation of the Ankle and Toes. Page 515

PART II.

BOOK VI.

• CHAP. I. Of cutting Tongue-tied Children. Page 517
• II. Of the growing together of Fingers or Toes. Page 520
• III. Of Imperforation of the Hymen. Page 521
• IV. Of the growing together of the Labia of the Womb. Page 523
• V. Of the Anus imperforate. Page 524
• VI. Of Rectification, or setting Parts that are distorted. Page 525
• VII. Of the Reduction of the Fingers. Page 527
• VIII. Of shrunk Sinews, and crooked Arms and Legs. Page 529
• IX. The Cure of a distorted Foot. Page 531
• X. The Cure of a crooked Back. Page 534

PART III.

BOOK VII. Of taking away Things superfluous.

• CHAP. I. Of Things superfluous in general; and concerning Womens Labors. Page 551
• II. The Signs that precede and accompany as well a natural, as an unnatural Delivery. Page 559
• III. Of the several natural situations of an Infant in the Mother's Womb, according to the different times of Pregnancy. Page 542
• IV. What is to be done when a Woman first falls in Labor. Page 544
• V. Of a natural Labor, and the means of helping a Woman therein, when there is one or more Chil∣dren. Page 547
• VI. How to fetch the After-burthen. Page 550
• VII. Of laborious and difficult Labors, and those against Nature, their Causes and Differences, together with the Means to remedy them. Page 552
• VIII. Of unnatural Labors, where manual Opera∣tion is absolutely necessary, and what Observations the Chirurgeon must make, before he goes about it. Page 556
• IX. The Signs to know whether the Child be alive or dead. Page 559

• X. How to fetch the After-burthen, when the string is broke. Page 560
• XI. To deliver a Woman when the Child comes footling. Page 562
• XII. How to fetch the Head, when separated from the Body, and it remains behind in the Womb? Page 564
• XIII. How to help a Woman in her Labor, when the Child's Head thrusts the Neck of the Womb forth before it? Page 567
• XIV. How to fetch a Child, when coming right it cannot pass, either because it is too big, or the Passages cannot be sufficiently dilated? Page 568
• XV. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child presents the side of the Head to the Birth, or the Face? Page 569
• XVI. How to deliver a Woman, when the Head of the Child is born, and the Womb closes about the Neck? Page 570
• XVII. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child comes with one or both Hands together with the Head? Page 571
• XVIII. How to deliver a Woman, when a Child pre∣sents one or both Hands foremost, without any other part? Page 572
• XIX. How to deliver a Woman, when Hands and Feet come together? Page 574
• XX. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child comes with the Knees? Page 575
• XXI. Of a Delivery, when the Child comes with Shoulders, Back or Breast. Page 576
• XXII. Of those Births, wherein the Infant pre∣sents Belly, Breast, or Side. Page 578

• XXIII. Of Labors, wherein several Children pre∣sent together in the different postures abovenamed. Page 579
• XXIV. Of a Labor, when the Navil-string comes first. Page 581
• XXV. Of a Labor, wherein the Burthen first offers, or first comes quite forth. Page 583
• XXVI. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child is Hydropical or Monstrous? Page 585
• XXVII. Of delivering a dead Child. Page 589
• XXVIII. Of extracting a Mola, and false Concep∣tion. Page 590
• XXIX. Of the Caesarian Section. Page 592
• XXX. Of Ruptures in general, their Differences, Signs and Causes. Page 595
• XXXI. The Cure of a Hernia Intestinalis, when the Peritonaeum is either distended or relaxed. Page 597
• XXXII. The Cure of a Hernia Intestinalis, when the Peritonaeum is burst. Page 599
• XXXIII. The Cure of a Hernia Omentalis. Page 601
• XXXIV. The Cure of a Hernia Aquosa. Page 602
• XXXV. The Cure of a Hernia Ventosa. Page 604
• XXXVI. The Cure of a Sarcocele and a Hydro∣sarcocele. ibid.
• XXXVII. The Cure of a Hernia Varicosa. Page 605
• XXXVIII. Of Amputation of a Member. Page 607
• XXXIX. Of the extirpation of a cancerous Breast. Page 612
• XL. Of taking away Blood by Venaesection, Scarifi∣cation and Leeches. Page 615
• XLI. Of the Couching of a Catarrhact. Page 623
• XLII. Of Lithotomy, or Cutting for the Stone. Page 626

Part IV.

BOOK VIII.

• CHAP. I. Of supplying the Nose, Ears, or Lips, when deficient. Page 645
• II. Intentions of Cure in supplying defects, and how the Body ought in general to be prepared. Page 648
• III. An Enumeration of what things are necessary for the delineation of the traductive Skin, and the provision of all Implements. Page 651
• IV. In what manner the cutaneous Graft must be delineated. Page 655
• V. The Cure of the delineated Graft. Page 658
• VI. The Cure of some Symptoms, which somtimes befall the delineated Skin. Page 661
• VII. Why the taking up of the Graft is deferred, and not done at one Section; what time is proper for the Administration, and what Provision must be made for it? Page 663
• VIII. The manner of taking up the cutaneous Graft. Page 664

• IX. Of the Cure of the New and Old Wound, both in the Graft, and in the Bed; and also of rearing the Graft. Page 667
• X. The time of Ingrafting, that is, of what Age a cutaneous Graft must be chosen, to ingraft with∣all. Page 672
• XI. Of things necessary for Ingrafting. Page 683
• XII. The Administration of Insition. Page 685
• XIII. The Cure of the Insition, and what course of Life must be observed. Page 688
• XIV. How the Symptoms, attending Ingrafting are to be corrected. Page 690
• XV. Of cutting the Graft quite from the Arm, and how it must be Cured. Page 691
• XVI. Of Shaping the Graft, so as it may repre∣sent the Nose. Page 693
• XVII. The Insition of the Bridge. Page 696
• XVIII. The further conformation of the cutaneous Graft. Page 698
• XIX. Of Curing the Hare-Lip, and supplying a Lip deficient. Page 700
• XX. Of supplying Curt Ears. Page 703
• XXI. The History of a Nose artificially Engrafted. Page 704
• An APPENDIX of the Venereal Disease. Page 705
• An APPENDIX concerning Embalming. Page 707