Operative surgery illustrated - containing more than nineteen hundred engravings - including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings- with explanatory text (1852) (14578988858)

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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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void hemorrhage, and the foreignbody should then be extracted. This operation has occasionallybeen performed for the purpose of conveying food into the stomachin cases of stricture of the cesophagus, but with no very satisfactoryresults. Fig. 8. Dilatation of the (Esophagus in Case of Stric-ture. The method of introducing the bougie is as follows : Thepatient sits upright, with the head thrown as far back as possible,and the mouth wide open. The bougie, which should be previouslywarmed in the hand, and oiled and gently curved, is passed downinto the pharynx, in such a manner that its point may slide along 136 OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. (plate lxxxii. the vetebras. In order that it may not excite coughing by inter-fering with the epiglottis, the patient should be directed to protrudethe tongue from the mouth as far as possible, or to perform the actof deglutition just when the bougie is entering the pharynx. Fig. 9. Removal of cancerous goitre by ligature. Process ofM. Mayer. TL 81

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