Operative surgery illustrated - containing more than nineteen hundred engravings - including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings- with explanatory text (1852) (14578950289)

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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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atient. Trephining. This operation may be performed in the followingmanner : A crucial or T incision being made, and the flaps dissectedback, the pericranium being shaved off from the part which is to beperforated, the surgeon applies the instrument, and works it, if it belike the one used in Fig. 5, with an alternate pronation and supina-tion of the wrist; and when it has cut a circular groove deep enoughto work in firmly, he withdraws the centre-pin. The surgeon shouldbe careful not to press heavily on the instrument, and he should fre-quently pause during the operation, and examine the depth of thegroove he has made. When he reaches the dura mater, he intro-duces the elevator to remove the circular piece of bone. Fig. 4. Trephine used at Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Incision in the following cases. Fig. 7. Enlarging the opening in the bone with the forceps, andcouteau lenticulaire. Fig. 8. Dividing the dura mater to give exit to blood or pus. Fig. 9. Method of trephining, from Bourgery. PL. 5 5

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