A text-book on surgery : general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth.

  • Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922.
Date:
1891 [©1890]
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Credit: A text-book on surgery : general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTEl^^TS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Surgical dressings—Ligatures and sutures—Preparation of material—Catgut, silk, silk-worm gut, silver wire—Antiseptic solutions—Corrosive sublimate, creoline, carbolic acid, iodo- form, alcohol, chloride-of-zinc—Irrigators, sponges—Drains: rubber, bone, catgut, and horse-hair—Protective—Carbolized, sublimated, and iodoformized gauze—Borated and absorbent cotton—Peat—Sawdust—Jute—Wood-wool 1 CHAPTER II. Bandaging—Materials and methods of preparing—Application of the various methods—Simple spiral, reverse spiral, figure-of-8 turn, figure-of-8 reverse—Special bandages—Hand and fingers—Fore-arm, arm, and shoulder—Toes, foot, leg, and thigh—Spica—Abdomen and thorax—Head and face—Knotted bandage—Handkerchief bandages 10 CHAPTER III. Anaesthesia—Local antesthesia—Cocaine—Etiier-spray—General anaesthesia—Administration of ether by inhalation—By the rectum—Chloroform and chloroform narcosis . . .22 CHAPTER IV. Surgical operations—Instruments—Operating - table—Furniture—Operating-gown—How to hold the scalpel—Hismostasis—Tying the ligature—After-treatment of the case . . 35 CHAPTER V. Inflammation—Venesection and blood-letting—Compression—Application of cold—Internal medication—Suppuration—Pus—Micrococci—Bacteria—Abscess—Treatment . . .54 CHAPTER VL Wounds—Process of repair—Cicatrization—The tourniquet—Closing woimds—The inter- rupted, continuous, mattress, quill, wire, and pin sutures—Transfusion—Intra-venous injection of a saline solution—Poisoned wounds—Snake-bites—Tarantula-poison—Wounds by bees, wasps, hornets, and centipedes—Hydrophobia—Glanders—Malignant pustule— Dissection wounds — Erysipelas—Dermatitis — Erythema — Cellulitis — Tetanus—Shot- wounds 68 CHAPTER VII. Burns and scalds—Skin-grafting—Frost-bite—Furuncle—Carbuncle—Ulcers—Gangrene—Dry or senile gangrene—Hospital gangrene 93