A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    subject. The greater number are those which have been long employed in one of the largest hospitals of this metropolis ; but as the surgeon in private practice cannot be expected to pro- vide himself with the arinajnentar'mmchirurgicumoi a hospital, a variety of simple and domestic contri- vances, which can be readily procured, have been introduced as substitutes for some of the more expensive forms of apparatus. The instruments ordinarily required in opera- tive surgery have also been admitted, as consti- tuting a part of surgical apparatus. Although of diminished size, their characters are given dis- tinctly ; and, with the notice in the text, will an- swer the purpose of a table of reference, in which the young student may find an explanation of the uses of many of them, which their names are lit- tle calculated to express. In the descriptive matter as much connexion as the plan of the delineations would allow has been maintained: and, in order to give the whole a more systematic form, it is preceded by a short classification assembling the corresponding parts of the subject under distinctive heads. 24, Argyle Street, January, 1832.