Archives of Clinical Surgery, Volume 2Rutledge, 1877 |
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Page 36 - Wyeth's Bloodless Method" used. In this method the parts are transfixed by means of large mattress pins as follows : One of the needles or pins is introduced one inch below and slightly to the inner side of the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, and caused to transfix the tissues and emerge on the same level three inches external to the point of entrance.
Page 117 - The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.
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Page 267 - MD, Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Page 316 - ... the tube must be removed as soon as possible. The greater part may be taken out after the third or fourth dressing if the wound is perfectly sweet, and the remainder on the tenth to fourteenth day. If the secretion does not quickly diminish, the joint must be washed out again with carbolic acid, and the drainage somewhat prolonged ; but the whole tube must never be left in after the tenth to twelfth day, for fear of irritating the cartilage on which it lies. In chronic cases, or where fungosity...
Page 85 - This wasting, which Paget calls "reflex atrophy, " " seems dependant on disordered nervous influence, and often appears proportionate to the coincident pain, as if it were due to the disturbance of some nutritive nervous centre, irritated by the painful state of the sensitive nerve fibre. "J Coincident inflammation, rather than "coincident pain," would, I believe, have better expressed the condition.
Page 315 - ... pneumonia, acute infectious diseases, and phlegmonous erysipelas of the lower extremities. 3. In chronic serous inflammation of the joint. 4. In fungous inflammation — (a) where the fluid secretion in the joint exceeds the fungous granulation in amount, and where the cartilage is still intact; (6) where there is excess of fungous granulation, but where caries is still absent.
Page 33 - Pneumatic Pressure and the Genu-Pectoral Posture in the Reduction of Uterine Luxations.. A reply to Dr. Doughty's "Interrogatory.
Page 63 - After that the stench was so disagreeable that we could not cleanse it; consequently we threw it away. Wednesday and Thursday it seemed to be in one continuous mass. I cannot better describe it than to say that it came like sausage-meat from a stuffcr. I would cut off about four inches a day — that is, on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday morning the last of it came away.
Page 205 - March 18, 1876—" that the vibrations of sound in liquids are transmitted inversely to their density. In a serous fluid, therefore, the sound passes more readily than in a purulent...