APPARATUS

APPARATUS, properly signifies a formal Preparation for some public and solemn Action. See PREPARATION.

Thus we say, the Apparatus of a Feast, Coronation, etc. The Prince made his Entry with great Apparatus and Magnificence.

Apparatus is also used for the Utensils, and Appendages belonging to some more considerable Machine.

As the Furniture or Apparatus of an Air-pump, Microscope, etc. See AIR-PUMP, MICROSCOPE, etc.



Apparatus is sometimes also used, in Surgery, for the Bandages, Medicaments, and Dressings of a Part; or the several Matters applied for the Cure of a Wound, Ulcer, or the like.
See WOUND, ULCER, etc.
There is no judging of the Quality of a Hurt, till after taking off the first Apparatus, or Apparel. Apparatus is particularly used for the Operation of cutting for the Stone. See STONE and CUTTING. There are three sorts of Apparatus; viz. the Small, Great, and High Apparatus: Which see described under the Article Lithotomy. The High Apparatus, said to have been invented by De Franco, is reputed the most ancient; though little used among us till of late. In this Method an Incision is made above the Groin, along the Linea Alba, into the Fundus of the Bladder; through which the Stone is extracted.
The Great Apparatus, invented by Hohn de Romanis, a Physician of Cremona, in the Year 1520, is performed by making an Incision in the Perineum. See PERINEUM.

It is denominated great from the number of Instruments used in it.

The Small Apparatus, thus called from the few Instruments it requires, was invented by Celsus. Here, the two Fore-Fingers are thrust up the Fundament till they come against the Stone, and drive it to the Neck of the Bladder; from which it is extracted through an Incision in the perineum.

Apparatus is also used as the Title of several Books composed in form of Catalogues, or Dictionaries; for the Ease and Convenience of Study.

The Apparatus upon Cicero, is a kind of Concordance or Collection of Ciceronian Phrases, etc. The Apparatus Sacer of the age is a Collection of all kinds of Ecclesiastical Authors printed in 1611, in three Volumes. Glossaries, Comments, etc., are also frequently called apparatuses.

APPARATUS