A short compendium of chirurgery containing its grounds & principles : more particularly treating of imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations : also a discourse of the generation and birth of man, very necessary to be understood by all midwives and child-bearing women : with the several methods of curing the French pox, the cure of baldness, inflammation of the eyes, and toothach, and an account of blood-letting, cup-setting, and blooding with leeches / by J.S., M.D.

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Author:	J. S. (John Shirley), M.D.
Title:	A short compendium of chirurgery containing its grounds & principles : more particularly treating of imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations : also a discourse of the generation and birth of man, very necessary to be understood by all midwives and child-bearing women : with the several methods of curing the French pox, the cure of baldness, inflammation of the eyes, and toothach, and an account of blood-letting, cup-setting, and blooding with leeches / by J.S., M.D.
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Print source:	A short compendium of chirurgery containing its grounds & principles : more particularly treating of imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations : also a discourse of the generation and birth of man, very necessary to be understood by all midwives and child-bearing women : with the several methods of curing the French pox, the cure of baldness, inflammation of the eyes, and toothach, and an account of blood-letting, cup-setting, and blooding with leeches / by J.S., M.D. J. S. (John Shirley), M.D., Shirley, John, 1648-1679. London: Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by Charles Blount ..., 1678.
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title page

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The Preface,

The CONTENTS.

A SHORT Compendium OF CHIRURGERY

CHAP. 1.

A SHORT Compendium OF The PRACTICAL Part OF CHIRURGERY. CHAP. II.

Of Impostumes.

They are Resolved by this.

The following brings them to Sup∣puration.

And this last mittigates the pain of them when it is too intense.

CHAP. III.

Of Wounds.

Of Wounds made by Fire Armes.

Of Gangrenes.

CHAP. IV.

Of Ulcers.

CHAP. V.

Of Fractures and Dislocations.

CHAP. VI.

Of the Generation and Production of Man.

CHAP. VII.

Of the Venerean Disease.

CHAP. VIII.

Of some other Indispositions which are Cured by Chirurgery.

Of Baldness.

Of the Eyes.

Tooth-ach.

Of Phlebotomy or Blood letting.

Of Cup-setting.

Of Leeches.