Report of surgical cases occurring in hospital practice / by George M. Jones.

  • Jones, George Matthew, 1805-1861.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report of surgical cases occurring in hospital practice / by George M. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the extent of more than an inch above, a considerable quantity of new bone was thrown out. After Treatment.—Local.—For ten days after the operation, the suppuration was extraordinarily great, and much of the integument al structures sloughed away, so that the warm- water dressings had not unfrequently to be renewed two and three times a day ; the pus throughout was generally of a laudable character. When healthy granulations were appa¬ rent, straps of Emplast. saponis comp., half-an-inch wide, and some distance apart, were applied in order to afford sup¬ port, and at the same time to approximate, as much as seemed desirable, the lips of the wound, while the head of the radius was by every means possible coaxed, if I may so express myself, to adapt itself to the part formerly occupied by the ulna. At the expiration of seven weeks from the date of the operation, the parts had entirely healed. Constitutional Treatment.—Immediately after the operation, stimulants in the shape of wine and malt-liquor, were allowed, and continued for several weeks, so that eight glasses of port wine, and one bottle of porter were taken in the twenty-four hours ; animal food was allowed at every meal, also other diet of a nutritious nature. Quinine in large doses, comp, tinc¬ ture of bark, and the syrup of iod. of iron were the medi¬ cines prescribed, not, as a matter of course, at the same time, but alternately. Present Appearance.—I shall merely add to the observa¬ tions already made, that at this date, December 8, the appearance of the arm is such, that no one would imagine the ulna wanting, the head of the radius has so beautifully adapted itself to the parts, that even manipulation leads one almost to imagine the olecranon still exists ; there is consi¬ derable movement of the wrist and of the elbow joints, of the former particularly. The patient walks about without ap¬ pliance of any description, and seldom or never carries her arm in a sling. I cannot conclude the history of this case without stating