A System of surgery v.1, Volume 1H.C. Lea's son, 1882 |
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abscess acid adhesive affected amputation aneurism anodynes appearance application artery attended bandage bleeding blood body bones bowels carcinoma cause cavity cells chancre chancroid character chronic circumstances colloid common connective tissue consistence constitutional contused cysts discharge disease doses effusion emollient employed encephaloid epithelial epithelial carcinoma Epithelioma erysipelas especially extremely fever fibrin fibrous fluid Fracture frequently gangrene granulations hemorrhage incision induration inflammation inflammatory injury inoculation integument irritation knife lesion less liable limb liver lungs lymph lymphatic glands malignant mammary gland manner matter membrane mercury morbid action morbid growth mucous mucous membrane muscles nature nerves nervous nitrate occasionally occur operation ordinary organ pain patient peculiar periosteum poison practitioner pyemia quantity quinine rectum remedies removal sarcoma scirrhus scrofulous secretions seldom serious severe skin soft sometimes sore structures subcutaneous substance suffering suppuration surface surgeon surgery swelling symptoms syphilis tendency tion treatment tumor ulcer usually uterus vascular veins vessels wound
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Page 339 - Moreover, they should be instituted at the earliest possible moment, before the parts are invaded by inflammation and swelling, as they may then be conducted with comparative ease and without any serious ulterior harm. "The fourth indication is the extraction of the ball. But to do this, it is necessary in the first place to ascertain where it is : to grope about in the wound without any definite idea as to its precise location would only be to inflict additional pain and injury. In order to conduct...
Page 311 - Warily must the surgeon take heed not to remove or interfere with Nature's balsam, but protect and defend it in its working and virtue. It is the nature of flesh to possess in itself an innate balsam which healeth wounds. Every limb has its own healing in itself ; Nature has her own doctor in every limb : wherefore every chirurgeon should know, that it is not he, but Nature, who heals. What do wounds need ? Nothing. Inasmuch as the flesh grows from within outwards, and not from without inwards ;...
Page 464 - The injuries of the first division, in which the parts do not communicate externally, seldom inflame, while those of the second commonly both inflame and suppurate."* The deviations from this law in particular instances are then adverted to.
Page 425 - ... the forefinger of the hand holding the instrument at the distance of about half an inch from the button. As soon as the finger feels uncomfortably hot, the instrument is ready for use, and the time required for heating it to this degree is only about a quarter of a minute.
Page v - Gross, in his preface, remarks "my aim has been to embrace the whole domain of surgery, and to allot to every subject its legitimate claim to notice;" and, we assure our readers, he has kept his word.
Page 296 - After awhile a crescentic portion from their edge breaks away, leaving a broad, shallow, vertical notch which is permanent for some years, but between twenty and thirty usually becomes obliterated by the premature wearing down of the tooth.
Page 437 - The root consists of a thick irregular bent or contorted body, or caudex, from a quarter of an inch to half an inch in thickness, often several inches in length and furnished with many slender radicles from four to eight inches long.
Page 467 - To cut off an arm at the shoulder on account of an incipient sarcomatous affection of the head of the humerus, when the elbow, forearm, hand, and fingers are all perfectly natural and glowing with health, unconscious, so to speak, of the fate which awaits them, is enough to sicken the stoutest heart, and to discourage the boldest operator.
Page 357 - For several successive hours, perhaps, he retreats to his basket or bed. He shows no disposition to bite, and he answers the call upon him laggardly. He is curled up, and his face is buried between his paws and his breast. At length he begins to be fidgety. He searches out new resting-places ; but he very soon changes these for others.
Page 327 - Edgar, that this practice is peculiar to the savages inhabiting the mountainous regions watered by Pitt River, one of the northern branches of the Sacramento. These people, it is said, use the poison of the rattlesnake, by grinding the dried head of that reptile into an impalpable powder, which is then applied by means of the putrid blood and flesh of the dog to the point of the weapon, the wound made by it proving speedily mortal.