Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OQO was caught by a pair of forceps as it entered the pelvis. It was then drawn forwards. The wire should be of virgin silver, and previous to its being used it should be raised to a red heat in a flame, and allowed to cool slowly. This renders it more pliable. The ends of the wire were brought forward, and were twisted together in front of the newly- formed joint. The cut surfaces of the divided glutei muscles were firmly united with silk sutures as accurately as possible. A quantity of sterilised iodoform gauze was left in the wound, and the skin edges were brought accurately together, except at the place of exit of the gauze. The child was put upon mercury, arsenic, and the iodides of potassium, sodium, and ammonium. The gauze was removed in twenty-four hours, a smaller quantity being in¬ troduced. In about a week movement of the femur upon the ilium around the wire as an axis was commenced, and was persevered with systematically. The wire was removed at the end of five weeks from the date of the operation, when movements of rotation of the femur upon its long axis were commenced. On July 7th the left leg was operated on in a precisely similar manner ; the conditions found were practically identical with those on the right side. The patient left the hospital on August 31st. She could stand by herself securely, as is shown in Figs. 158 and 159, and with a little assistance she could walk very fairly with comfort. It must be remem¬ bered that but little more than six weeks had elapsed since the last operation, and that the child had not walked for a long time before the operations. In