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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 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.