A Short Treatise on Operative Surgery; Describing the Principal Operations as They Are Practised in England and France Designed for the Use of Students in Operating on the Dead Body - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825. Excerpt: ... and outwards, forms a flap from the superior and posterior part of the arm, including the whole breadth of the deltoid muscle, and a part of the latissimus dorsi. This being held back by the assistant, the joint is cut through by passing the knife between its articulatory surfaces from behind forwards, and a corresponding flap is formed by cutting downwards and outwards between the muscles and bone on the inner side of the arm. The vessels being tied, and the flaps placed in contact with each other, the operation is finished. 'In operating on the right side, the patient should be seated on a low chair, and the catling thrust from above downwards, introducing it just before the point where the clavicle is connected to the acromion, and raising the hand as it is thrust backwards and downwards, till it appears on the inner edge of the latissimus dorsi, when the flap is to be formed, and the operation continued as before. M. Richerand observes, "by this method a dexterous operator can separate the arm from the trunk as quickly as an expert carver detaches the wing of a partridge." i AMPUTATION OF THE TOES. Accidental causes, or mortification produced by exposure to cold, may give rise to the necessity of removing the toes. In either of these cases, to remove each toe separately, would be a more tedious and painful process than is requisite. M. Lisfranc has therefore' proposed the following method. Supposing it the left extremity to be operated on, and the foot steadily fixed by an assistant, the operator feels for the head of the first phalanx of the great toe, which joins the metatarsal bone, and on it places his left thumb; on the same extremity of the little toe, he places his left index finger, the toes resting in the palm of his hand. He then, with a nar...

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.