Modern Surgery, General and Operative

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W.B. Saunders, 1903 - Surgery - 1089 pages
 

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Page 57 - The process of inflammation is the succession of changes which occurs in a living tissue when it is injured, provided that the injury is not of such a degree as at once to destroy its structure and vitality.
Page 420 - Fractures of the Shaft of the Humerus.— Fracture of the shaft of the humerus is a very common accident.
Page 356 - A line drawn from a point midway between the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the symphysis pubis to the inner side of the inner condyle of the femur, will be nearly parallel with the course of the artery.
Page 347 - The boundaries of the anterior triangle are in front, the median line of the neck ; above, the lower border of the body of the jaw, and an imaginary line drawn from the angle of the jaw to the mastoid process; behind, the anterior border of the Sterno-mastoid muscle. The boundaries of the...
Page 449 - In treating separation of the epiphysis of the great trochanter flex the leg on the thigh and the thigh on the pelvis...
Page 770 - To retard the exit of the shoulders, pressure should be applied to the trunk and shoulder by placing the index and middle fingers of the left hand in the rectum with the thumb in the vagina to restrain its exit.
Page 343 - In order to facilitate the description of these vessels, more especially in a surgical point of view, each subclavian artery has been divided into three parts. The first portion, on the right side, ascends obliquely outwards, from the origin of the vessel to the inner border of the Scalenus anticus.
Page 349 - ... Internal Jugular Vein. — A line extending from the tragus of the ear to the sternoclavicular articulation will cover, and be parallel with, the internal and common carotid arteries in their surgical length. This line will strike the centre of bifurcation of the primitive carotid almost invariably on a level with the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, and will strike the anterior edge of the sterno-mastoideus from one inch and a quarter to one-and-a-half below this level.
Page 444 - Professor Senn claims that by his method of " immediate reduction and permanent fixation," bony union is obtained in fractures of the neck of the femur within the capsule. He "places the patient in the erect position, causing him to stand with his sound leg upon a stool or box about two feet in height; in this position he is supported by a person fin each side until the dressing has been applied and the plaster is set.
Page 819 - If it occurs suddenly, the sufferer believes his hernia was caused then and there, but, as a matter of fact, the extrusion of bowel or omentum and its entrance into the sac, are but the last of a long series of antecedent and preparatory changes.

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