The Principles and Practice of Surgery: Founded on the Most Extensive Hospital and Private Practice, During a Period of Nearly Fifty YearsE. Cox, 1836 - 988 pages |
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abdomen abscess absorbed afterwards amputation aneurism aneurismal aorta appearance applied arises attended becomes bladder bleeding blood body bone brain breast calculi canula cavity chronic complaint concussion considerable constitution cremaster cremaster muscle cure cyst danger deferens discharge disease dissection divided dura mater edge effects enlarged epididymis external extravasation extremely femoral artery finger fluid forceps formed fracture frequently gangrene gentleman granulations Guy's Hospital hæmorrhage heal hydatid hydrocele inch incision inflammation injection injury integument intestines irritation knife ligature lobes medicine membrane mode muscle nerve nipple opening opium pain passed patient perform the operation peritoneum person portion poultice Poupart's ligament pressure prevent produced pulse quantity rectum removed scirrhous scrotum secretion seen serum side skin sloughing sometimes sore spermatic cord stone suppuration surface surgeon swelling symptoms tendon testicle testis treatment trephine trocar tubuli tumour tunica albuginea tunica vaginalis ulceration urethra urine vas deferens vasa efferentia veins vessels wound
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Page 36 - The methods by which I have preserved my own health are— temperance, early rising, and sponging the body every morning with cold water, immediately after getting out of bed; a practice which I have adopted for thirty years without ever catching cold.
Page 194 - If you could save one life in ten, ay, one in a hundred, by such an operation, it is your duty to attempt it, notwithstanding any objections which some foolish persons may have urged against it. Suppose any one now present were in this state himself; suppose him put to bed with a paralysis of his lower extremities, and fully acquainted with the inevitable result if nothing were done ; would he not be glad to have any attempt made to save him ? Would it not be foolish and unmanly to say, he would...
Page 170 - Hospital at that place, where he remained for some months, still insensible ; and some time after he was brought from Gibraltar on board the Dolphin frigate, to a depot for sailors at Deptford. While he was at, Deptford, the surgeon under whose care he was, was visited by Mr. Davy, who was then an apprentice at this hospital : the surgeon said to Mr.
Page 170 - Mr. Davy went to see the case; and, on examining the patient, found that -there was a slight depression on one part of the head. Being informed of the accident which had occasioned this depression, he recommended the man to be sent to St. Thomas's hospital. He was placed under the care of Mr. Cline ; and when he was first admitted into this hospital, I saw him lying on his back, breathing without any great difficulty ; his pulse regular, his arms extended, and his fingers moving to and fro to the...
Page 171 - ... he was able to tell us where he came from. " He recollected the circumstance of his having been pressed, and carried down to Plymouth or Falmouth ; but from that moment, up to the time...
Page 433 - The following is the account upon a tombstone near Dartford, Kent. " Here lies the body of Ann Mumford, daughter of John Mumford, Esq., of Sutton Place, in this parish. Her death was occasioned by a dropsy, for which, in the space of three years and ten months she was tapped one hundred and fifty-five times. She died the 14th of May, 1778, in the twenty-third year of her age, an example of patience, fortitude, and resignation.
Page 290 - For nearly the first twelve months he stated that he had emissions in coitu, or that he had the sensations of emission. That then he had erections and coitus at distant intervals, but without the sensation of emission. After two years, he had erections very rarely and very imperfectly, and they generally immediately ceased upon the attempt at coitus.
Page 170 - Cline ; and when he was first admitted into this hospital, I saw him lying on his back, breathing without any great difficulty, his pulse regular, his arms extended, and his fingers moving to and fro to the motion of his heart, so that you could count his pulse by this motion of his fingers. If he wanted food, he had the power of moving his lips and tongue ; and this action of his mouth was the signal to his attendants for supplying this want.
Page 278 - And examples of the transversalis being penetrated by that structure in the same manner are recorded. * c. In his latest account of the structure of these parts Sir A. Cooper described the lower edge of the transversalis as curved all round the internal ring and the spermatic cord. "But the lower edge of the transversalis has a very peculiar insertion, which I have hinted at in my work on hernia. It begins to be fixed in Poupart's ligament, almost immediately below the commencement of the internal...
Page 401 - I would not deny that a patient might recover the retentive power. As the loss of retention is a greater evil than I can describe, producing excoriation and a very offensive state, I shall in any future operation of lithotomy, try what may be effected by employing a suture to bring the divided parts together.