They are Five; _viz._ the Hand, Bandages, Medicines, the Incision-Knife, and Fire. _What is the general Practice which ought to be observ'd in the Application of these different helps?_ _Hippocrates_ teacheth us, in saying, that when Medicines are not sufficient, recourse may be had to the Incision-Knife, and afterward to Fire; intimating that we must proceed by degrees. _Are there any Distempers that may be cured by the Surgeon's Hand alone?_ Yes, as when a simple and small Dislocation is only to be reduced. * * * * * {5} CHAP. II. _Of Chirurgical Instruments, portable and not portable._ _What do you call portable and not portable Instruments?_ Portable Instruments are those which the Surgeon carries in his Lancet-Case with his Plaister-Box; and not portable are those that he doth not carry about him, but is oblig'd to keep at home; the former being appointed for the ready help which he daily administers to his Patients, and the others for greater Operations. _What are the Instruments which a Surgeon ought to have in his Plaister-Box?_ These Instruments are a good pair of _Sizzers_, a _Razor_, an _Incision-Knife_ streight and crooked, a _Spatula_, a greater _Lancet_ to open Impostumes, and lesser for letting Blood. They likewise carry separately in very neat Lancet-Cases, a hollow _Probe_ made of Silver or fine Steel; as also many other Probes, streight, crooked, folding, and of different thickness; a _Pipe_ of Silver or fine Steel, to convey the cauterizing _Button_ to a remote Part, without running the hazard of burning those that are near it; another _Pipe_ or _Tube_ serving instead of a Case for _Needles_, which have Eyes at one end for sowing; a _Carlet_, or thick triangular Needle; a small _File_; a Steel Instrument to cleanse the Teeth; a {6} _Fleam_; a pair of crooked _Forceps_ to draw a Tooth; a _Pelican_; a _Crow's Bill_; several sorts of _Raspatories_; a _Hook_ to hold up the Skin in cutting, _&c._ _What are the Instruments which a Surgeon ought to keep in his Repository to perform the greater Operations?_ Some of them are peculiar to certain Operations, and others are common to all. The Instruments appropriated to particular Operations, are the _Trepan_ for opening the Bones in the Head, or elsewhere: The _Catheters_ or Probes for Men and Women afflicted with the Stone, or difficulty of making Water. _Extractors_, to lay hold on the Stone in _Lithotomy_, and to gather together the Gravel; large crooked _Incision-Knives_, and a _Saw_, to make Amputations of the Arms or Legs; great _Needles_ with three Edges, to be used in making _Setons_; small _Needles_ to couch Cataracts; other _Needles_; thin _Plates_ and _Buckles_ to close a Hair-Lip, _&c._ _May not the Salvatory be reckon'd among the portable Instruments?_ Yes, because the Balsams, Ointments, and Plaisters contain'd therein, are means whereof the Surgeon makes use to restore Health. * * * * *