A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

In ordinary surgical language the name Amputation is applied to all cases of removal of limbs, or portions of limbs, by the knife, though in strict accuracy it should be restric...

LIGATURE OF ARTERIES.--In a work of this nature there is no room for any discussion of the principles which should guide us in the selection of cases, or of the pathology of ane...

LITHOTOMY.--However interesting and even instructive it might be, any history of the various operations for the removal of calculi from the bladder would be quite out of place i...

_Historical._--Beyond a passage ascribed to Hippocrates, but of very doubtful authenticity, and slight allusions in the works of Celsus and Paulus Ægineta, the ancients give us...

_Trocar._--The usual instrument used to be a simple round canula with a trocar, the point of which should be very sharp, and in the shape of a three-sided pyramid. It should be...

1. FOR ENTROPIUM OR INVERSION OF THE LIDS, OFTEN COMBINED WITH TRICHIASIS, IRREGULARITY OF THE CILIÆ.--As in many cases the entropium seems to depend partly on a too great laxit...

RHINOPLASTIC OPERATIONS.--The operations for the restoration or repair of lost or mutilated noses are so various, and the minuteness of detail necessary for full description of...

OPERATIONS ON THE LARYNX AND TRACHEA.--The great air passage may be opened at three different situations, and to the operations at these different places the following names hav...

NERVE-STRETCHING.--Surgical literature in last ten years is full of cases in which nerves have been stretched for all manner of diseases with varying success: an example of the...

SALIVARY FISTULA, _Operation for._--After a wound or abscess of the cheek, in which the parotid duct is implicated, a salivary fistula is very apt to remain. The saliva thus dis...

1. EXCISION OF THE UPPER JAW.--With regard to the morbid conditions for which this operation is undertaken, it may be sufficient here to observe, that in no case can the operati...

EXCISION OF MAMMA.--When the whole breast is to be removed, two incisions, inclosing an elliptical portion of skin along with the nipple, must be made in the direction of the fi...

TREPHINING AND TREPANNING are the names given to operations for the removal of portions of the cranium by circular saws which play on a centre pivot. When the motion is given to...

For convenience' sake I group under this one head certain operations used for the relief of distortion, in which muscles or tendons are divided subcutaneously. Since the discove...

Entropium and Ectropium--Trichiasis--Tarsal Tumours--On Lachrymal Organs--Mr. Bowman's Operation--Pterygium--Strabismus, convergent and divergent--Paracentesis of the Anterior C...