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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
30). Cautery, pitch, etc. were used to arrest the bleeding. The needle and ligature were introduced about 1550, by the French surgeon Pere. He was surgeon to Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III. of France, and though a Protestant was concealed in the king's chamber on the night of St. Bartholomew. The king is said to have remarked, There is only one Pere. A complete set of surgical instruments of bronze was discovered at Pompeii. The tourniquet was invented by Morelli in 1674. Basso-relievos in the temples of Karnak, Tentyra, and Luxor show that the ancient Egyptians performed amputations of limbs, without the tourniquet, however, or the mode of ligating the severed arteries; it is merely a cutting and sawing, followed by the cautery, styptics, or compress. The chirurgeon of ancient times was principally employed in reducing fractures and luxations, in treating wounds, applying topical remedies, and in the application of simple or strange drugs with occult c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
n one, taking two pictures on the same plate. A substitute arrangement is that in which the camera receives successive positions on one stand with two stations. Camera-lucida. Camera-obscura. Camera-stand. Cam-gear wheel. Panoramic camera, one in which a picture may be taken upon one flat, including an angle of 90° more or less. Invented by Sutton. See also photographic camera. Cam′e-ra-lu′ci-da. Founded upon the invention of Baptista Porta (1589), by Dr. Hooke, about 1674. Improved by Wollaston, 1805. Phil. Trans., Vol. XXXVIII. p. 741. It consists of a glass prism a b c d, by means of which rays of light are bent by two reflections into a path at right angles to their previous direction. A ray of light proceeding from O enters the face of the prism at a, is reflected by b and c till it assumes the direction c E, at which latter point is the eye of the observer. As a contrivance of Dr. Wollaston, for the purpose of delineating a microscopic object, it
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
to the short arm of a bent lever, by means of which it may be at once applied to the greater part of the periphery of the wheel, exerting a frictional pressure proportionate to the force applied to the lever. Rib′bon-loom. The ribbon-loom first appeared at Dantzic in 1586, and the inventor is said to have been strangled to prevent the spread of what would throw so many mechanics out of employment. It was prohibited in Holland for that reason in 1623. It is first noticed in England in 1674. In 1780, the mode of ornamentation (watering) by pressing between figured steel plates was adopted. Steel cylin- ders were afterward substituted. See narrow-ware loom. Ribbon-map. Rib′bon-map. A map printed on a long strip which winds on an axis within the case. Rib′bon-saw. A thin and narrow endless band of steel, one edge of which is serrated. It is stretched over two drums, such a distance apart that there is a certain length of straight sawband between them. Motion i<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
our′ma-line. 1. A prism of schorl used in polarizing apparatus. 2. Rubellite and green tourmaline are used as gems. Tour′na-sin. （Pottery.) A knife for the removal of superfluous slip from the baked ware which has been ornamented by the blowing-pot (which see). Tour′nay. A printed worsted material for furniture upholstery. Tournai in Belgium (Fl. Doormick). Tour′ni-quet. （Surgical.) An instrument for compressing an artery in amputations. The invention of Morelli, 1674, modified by other distinguished surgeons. Also used in compressing aneurisms and tumors. See Fig. 212, page 103. The screw-tourniquet was invented by Petit of France, 1718. The form now in common use, an improvement on that of Petit, was patented by Savigny of London in 1800. Improvements have also been made by Nuck, Verduc, Monro, and others. The heroes before Troy had one field physician, but in general the soldiers of the armies of the ancients, or sympathizing females, gav
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
points. These fringes or laces were sewed in rows to plain caps, which were made of thin sheep-skin, and this head-dress was the French peruque, the German parucke, the English periwig; whence the term wig. One form consisted of three-thread tresses which were sewed to ribbons; these were then stretched out and sewed together on blocks cut into the shape of the head. Frizzing the wigs was introduced by one Ervais. Periwigs first worn in England about 1590. Judges wore full-bottomed wigs 1674. I bought two periwigs, one whereof cost me £ 3 and the other 40 s. — Pepys, 1663. The peruke was an Italian device, first worn at the French court, 1620; introduced into England, 1660. Louis XIV., to hide his shoulders, which were not matches, introduced the long wig, and then no gentleman of quality at court could wear his own hair. Wig′an. An open, canvas-like fabric, used as a stiffening in the lower ends of the legs of pantaloons, and as a skirt-protector on the lower insi