Surgery

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P. Blakiston's Son & Company, 1903 - 1227 pages

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Page 3 - 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 570 - FRCS, Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery at, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Senior Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Price 7s. 6d.
Page 526 - The diagnosis is, hewever, sometimes difficult unless the patient is seen at the time the cartilage is displaced. Treatment. — To replace the cartilage, flex the thigh on the abdomen and the leg on the thigh, and rotate the leg outwards ; then manipulate the cartilage with the fingers and suddenly extend the leg, at the same time rotating it outwards. To prevent a recurrence the movements of the joint sheuld be limited to flexion and extension by means of a special form of splint (Fig.
Page 93 - ... nasi ; the ends of the fingers are commonly broad, with convex nails bent over their extremities. Such persons usually possess much energy and sensibility, with elasticity and buoyancy of spirits ; they often possess, too, considerable beauty. In this variety, with the same delicacy, the skin and eyes are sometimes dark.
Page 352 - ... toes ; divide the skin and the superficial and deep fascia : the artery will be found between the extensor proprius hallucis and the innermost tendon of the extensor longus digitorum. As the artery sinks into the sole it is crossed by the innermost tendon of the extensor brevis digitorum. The anterior tibial nerve is on the outer side. DISEASES OF .THE VEINS. Thrombosis, or clotting of the blood in a vein, is very common, and was formerly thought to be always the result of inflammation of the...
Page 87 - It is most common about the nates and genitals, where it is usually erythematous in character, and on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where it is commonly squamous.
Page 272 - Tuberculosis affects chiefly cancellous bones, and portions of bones ; the bodies of the vertebrae ; the spongy articular extremities of the long bones, — especially the lower end of the femur and upper end of the tibia, and...
Page 854 - ... above and in front of the anterior superior spine of the ilium. The...
Page 338 - The oblique course taken by the common carotid artery along the side of the neck, is indicated by a line drawn from the sterno-clavicular articulation to a point midway between the angle of the jaw and the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
Page 559 - This part is connected with homonymous halves of the retina of either eye — the temporal half of the retina of the same side and the nasal half of the retina of the opposite side.

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