Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, etc

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Preface To Fourth Edition

The author has been much gratified by the favorable reception which has been accorded to this work, and has endeavored in the preparation of the present edition to make it worthy of a continuance of that favor. The subject-matter has been carefully revised and much new material has been added, including a chapter upon Surgical Bacteriology. From the fact that great attention is now directed in our medical ~chools to operative procedures upon the cadaver, it 1 seemed advisable to the author to add a section upon such operations as can with advantage be practised upon the cadaver. These include Amputations, Ligations, Excisions, the Introduction of Sutures, Intestinal Anastomosis, Tracheotomy and Intubation, and Operations upon the Bones, Tendons, and Nerves.

The descriptions of these operative procedures are brief, and are not intended to take the place of the varied and elaborate ones given in special works upon operative surgery, but they have been introduced to add to the value iv PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.

of the work as a hand-book for the use of students in their practical work.

The author desires to express his thanks to Dr. J. H. Jopson for assistance in revising the proof-sheets.

1725 Spruce St., Philadelphia, July, 1899.

Preface To First Edition

The author has, in this work, endeavored to present, in as concise a manner as possible, a description of the various bandages, surgical dressings, and minor surgical procedures which are employed in the practice of surgery at the present time. The preparation and application of the antiseptic dressings now most commonly used have also received full consideration. The article upon Bandaging is fully illustrated with cuts, mostly new and taken from photographs, which, it is hoped, will prove of value as furnishing an accurate representation of the most important bandages used in surgical practice; the same is in a measure true of the article upon the dressing of Fractures and Dislocations, in which many new cuts of the same kind appear.

The work also contains short articles upon Tracheotomy, Intubation of the Larynx, the Ligation of Arteries, and Amputations, and, although these procedures are scarcely to be included with those of Minor Surgery, it is hoped that their description will increase the value of the work to medical students, for whose use it has vi PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

been prepared. The author's thanks are due to Dr. Walter D. Green for his kind assistance in revising proof-sheets, and to Mr. James Wood for the skilful photographic work used in illustrating several of the articles.

Philadelphia, August, 1891.

Contents

PAKT I.

BANDAGING.

Varieties of Bandages .

Part II. Minor Surgery

Theory of Asepsis and Antisepsis in Wound Treatment . 120-125

Agents Employed to Secure Asepsis ..... 125-132

Preparation of Materials Used in Aseptic Operations and

Dressings 132-139

Preparation of Gauze Dressings 139-143

Methods and Dressings Employed in the Treatment of

Wounds to Secure Asepsis 143-144

Preparation for Aseptic Operation and Dressing of Wounds 144-158

Materials Used in Surgical Dressings 158-163

Procedures Employed in Minor Surgery .... 163-225

Trusses 244-247

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Catheters and Bougies . . . . . . . 247-256

Methods of Intestinal Anastomosis 271-274

Ligatures Used in the Treatment of Vascular Growths . 274-278

-^-"Treatment of Hemorrhage 278-298

t Opening and Dressing of Abscesses 298-301

Dressing of Wounds, Burns and Scalds, Bed-sores, Sprains . 304-316

AMPUTATIONS.

General Consideration of Amputations ~j-Special Amputations .....

450-463 463-507

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Part VII. Excisions And Resections, And Special Operations

General Consideration of Excisions and Resections

Special Excisions and Resections .

Trephining .....

Laminectomy ....

Removal of the Breast

Tracheotomy ....

Laryngotomy ....

Laryngo-tracheotomy .

Operations upon the Kidney

Operations upon the Colon .

Removal of Appendix Vermiformis

Lithotomy

Circumcision ....

Removal of the Testicle Operation for Varicocele Cholecystotomy .... (Esophagotomy ....

Gastrostomy ....

Pyloroplasty ....

Pylorectomy and Gastro-duodenostomy Gastro-enterostomy Osteotomy

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