Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

About this Item

Title
Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
Publication
London : Printed for J. Dawks ... and sold by S. Sprint [and 6 others] ...,
M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
Rights/Permissions

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.

Subject terms
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60561.0001.001
Cite this Item
"Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60561.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 31, 2024.

Pages

II. Wounds of the Eye-lids.

XVI. These Wounds are called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pl. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. and in Latin, Vulnera Palpebrae, pl. Palpebra∣rum.

XVII. Each Eye-lid has two Muscles which shut them, of a semicircular Figure; the one seated in the upper Eye-lid, which draws it down, and is the greater; the other in the lower Eye-lid, and pulls it only upwards, and is the lesser.

XVIII. And the upper Eye-lid is opened, or drawn up by a Muscle which arises from the upper part of the Frons, near to the temporal Muscle, where the hairy Scalp ends, and goes directly down, and is inserted into the Eye-brow: Now if this Muscle is transversely cut asunder, the Eye-lid cannot well be opened or pulled up, unless it be well agglutinated or united again.

XIX. The Wounds of this part then are either straight or trans∣verse: The straight reach from one corner of the Eye to the o∣ther; for this is the Ductus of the Fibres of the semicircular Muscles of the Eye. Transverse, are only those Wounds which reach directly down from the Supercilium or Eye-brow, to∣wards the Ball or Cavity of the Eye.

XX. Again, these Wounds ei∣ther divide the outer Skin and Muscles only, or they also divide the internal Membrane of the Eye-lid also, which does imme∣diately touch and cover the Eye.

XXI. If the external Skin and semicircular Muscle are only divi∣ded, you may stitch them together, but with a very small Needle and Thred well waxed; then you must apply Agglutinatives and Sarcoticks, as those things described at Sect. 9, and 10. a∣foregoing.

XXII. Or this. ℞ Fine Bole, Terra Sigillata A.ʒii. Sarcocolla, Sanguis Draconis A. ʒi. mix, and make a fine Pouder, which apply on a soft Linnen Cloth dipt in the White of an Egg: And above this apply Bolsters dipt in a Tincture of Catechu, made in e∣qual parts of Red Wine, and red Rose-water; which done, let the Eye be rouled or bound up.

XXIII. If there is need of im∣brocating the adjacent parts with Oil of Roses, or some other Oil, take heed that none of it goes into the Eye, because they are apt to do hurt, and cause an Inflammation.

Page 956

XXIV. If also the internal Membrane of the Eye-lid is di∣vided, you must not stitch with Needle and Thred, because the Thred touching the Body of the Eye would offend it, and be apt to induce an Inflammation: In this case the dry Suture is most convenient, after which you are to heal it as other like Wounds, taking heed that the two Lids grow not together.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.