American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... fix- ed to the bone should be divided at the point to which the former had retracted . The latter may be separated from the surface of the bone , for a short distance , by a common scalpel , to allow of the bone being sawed higher up ...
... fix- ed to the bone should be divided at the point to which the former had retracted . The latter may be separated from the surface of the bone , for a short distance , by a common scalpel , to allow of the bone being sawed higher up ...
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... fixed by placing the thumb of the left band a little befow the place where it is designed to introduce the lancet . That instrument should be pushed obliquely into the vein , and when its point is a little within the cavity , the ...
... fixed by placing the thumb of the left band a little befow the place where it is designed to introduce the lancet . That instrument should be pushed obliquely into the vein , and when its point is a little within the cavity , the ...
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... fixed in the bone below the fracture , together with the flexors of the knee . Besides the short- ening of the limb , produced by the re- traction of the lower portion of the frac tured bone , there is another deformity arising from its ...
... fixed in the bone below the fracture , together with the flexors of the knee . Besides the short- ening of the limb , produced by the re- traction of the lower portion of the frac tured bone , there is another deformity arising from its ...
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... fixed , by placing a broad towel round the chest , and tying it to some immoveable point . The extension should be gradual , and kept up unremittingly , which can be best effected by means of pullies . The elbow should be bent , and the ...
... fixed , by placing a broad towel round the chest , and tying it to some immoveable point . The extension should be gradual , and kept up unremittingly , which can be best effected by means of pullies . The elbow should be bent , and the ...
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... fixed by means of a sheet passed under the perine- Extension may be made by fixing a broad towel , or the pullies , just above the condyles . When the head of the bone is on the dorsum ilii , the extension is to be continued until it ...
... fixed by means of a sheet passed under the perine- Extension may be made by fixing a broad towel , or the pullies , just above the condyles . When the head of the bone is on the dorsum ilii , the extension is to be continued until it ...
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