Surgery, its principles and practice (1906) (14771051464)

Identifier: surgeryitsprinci04keen (find matches)
Title: Surgery, its principles and practice
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Keen, William W. (William Williams), b. 1837 Da Costa, J. Chalmers (John Chalmers), 1863-1933, joint ed
Subjects: Surgery General Surgery
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : W. B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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488 SURGERY OF THE PENIS AND URETHRA. vessels should be ligated, and skin and mucous membrane approximatedby means of interrupted catgut sutures. A dressing should be applied,consisting of a narrow strip of sterilized gauze folded upon itself threetimes to make slight pressure. Only the suture line is covered, the meatusbeing left exposed. The dressing should be kept constantly saturated
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Fig. 258.—Circumcision. Prepuce Drawn For-ward; Application of Circumcision For-ceps Parallel to the Corona Glandis. Fig. 259.—Circumcision. Skin Re-moved, Mucous Membrane DrawnForward and Divided on theDorsum. with lead-water and laudanum, and should not be changed for twenty-four hours. Operation for Paraphimosis.—If seen soon after the accident,the parts can usually he restored to their normal position by taxis. Ifthere is much distention from effusion of serum, the latter should first be evacuated by making small punc-tures in the integument. The sur-geon grasps the organ with the lefthand and supports it firmly, while