Reports in operative surgery : series the third / by Richard G.H. Butcher.

Dublin : McGlashan & Gill, 1859.

50 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm

'From the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, February, 1859' - t.p. verso

Contents: 1. Remarks on 'Butcher's operation' for excision of the wrist-joint and carpus, illustrated by cases - 2. A third successful case of excision of the knee-joint - 3. Another successful case of excision of the elbow-joint, in which an unusually large amount of bone was removed - 4. Successful case of partial resection of the elbow-joint - 5. Syme's and Pirogoff's operations at the ankle-joint - 6. Syme's operation at the ankle-joint : recovery - 7. Pirogoff's operation at the ankle-joint, in which Syme's had to be substituted : recovery - 8. Excision of a large portion of the lower jaw, for an osteo-vascular tumour : intermediary hemorrhage considered : perfect recovery - 9. Successful excision of the metatarso-phalangeal articulation of the great toe

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