A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hinge to the back of the belt, descends towards the anus, and is furnished at its lower end with two straps which pass between the thighs to be attached to the anterior part of the belt; from the front surface of this plate a spring projects, bearing on its extremity a pad, E, to press upon the anus and withstand a second descent of the gut; the inner surfaces of the spring and plate are well padded. An elastic brace is sold by Weiss for this pur- pose, the two bands of which cross beneath the anus, and support it upon a compress of soft sponge. Plate V. Sutures. Sutures are now much less frequently resorted to than formerly ; adhesive plaster, uniting band- ages, and, above all, position, being found to pro- duce the same effects in many cases, with less irritation. They should only be employed, there fore, when these means are insufficient. Common silk is a better material for sutures than dentist's silk, which is apt to cut through the skin. Five forms of suture are described by surgical writers; the common interrupted, the dry, the glover's, the quilled, and the twisted suture.