Operative surgery illustrated - containing more than nineteen hundred engravings - including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings- with explanatory text (1852) (14578914238)

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Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text

Year: 1852 (1850s)

Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects

Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery

Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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PLATE xxv.) OPERATIVE SUEGERY ILLUSTRATED. 53 PLATE XXV. Figs. 1, 3. Amputation by the Circular Method, in theContinuity of the four Metacarpal Bones of the Fin-gers. The hand being held by an assistant, an incision is made onthe palmar surface, as seen in the figure ; the skin being retracted,the incision is completed to the bones ; the hand is then reversed,the knife carried round upon the back, and the incision finished byseparating the interosseous tissue with the point of the knife. Stripsof cloth are next applied, as seen in Fig. 3, the flesh retracted by theassistant, and the operation finished with the saw, as seen in thesame figure. Fig. 2. Amputation through the Carpo-metacarpal Ar-ticulation. A semicircular incision is made across the back ofthe hand, two thirds of an inch below the line of the articulations,and carrying the knife through the tissues connecting the thumbwith the index finger; an assistant draws the integuments upward,and the surgeon finishes the operation b

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