Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.

Anatomy--INJURIES OF ARTERIES: _Varieties_--INJURIES OF VEINS: _Air Embolism_--Repair of blood vessels and natural arrest of hæmorrhage--HÆMORRHAGE: _Varieties_; _Prevention_; _...

Definition of terms--Ankylosis. DISEASES: Errors of development--Bacterial diseases: _Pyogenic_; _Gonorrhœal_; _Tuberculous_; _Syphilitic_; _Acute rheumatism_--Diseases associat...

Anatomy and physiology--Regeneration of bone--Transplantation of bone. DISEASES OF BONE--Definition of terms--Pyogenic diseases: _Acute osteomyelitis and periostitis_; _Chronic...

Definition.--Virus.--ACQUIRED SYPHILIS--Primary period: _Incubation, primary chancre, glandular enlargement_; _Extra-genital chancres_--Treatment--Secondary period: _General sym...

#Anatomy.#--A nerve-trunk is made up of a variable number of bundles of nerve fibres surrounded and supported by a framework of connective tissue. The nerve fibres are chiefly o...

A tumour or neoplasm is a localised swelling composed of newly formed tissue which fulfils no physiological function. Tumours increase in size quite independently of the growth...

Erysipelas, popularly known as "rose," is an acute spreading infective disease of the skin or of a mucous membrane due to the action of a streptococcus. Infection invariably tak...

A contusion or bruise is a laceration of the subcutaneous soft tissues, without solution of continuity of the skin. When the integument gives way at the same time, a _contused-w...

Suppuration, or the formation of pus, is one of the results of the action of bacteria on the tissues. The invading organism is usually one of the staphylococci, less frequently...

#Structure of Skin.#--The skin is composed of a superficial cellular layer--the epidermis, and the corium or true skin. The _epidermis_ is differentiated from without inwards in...

Definition--Types: _Dry_, _Moist_--Varieties--Gangrene primarily due to interference with circulation: _Senile gangrene_; _Embolic gangrene_; _Gangrene following ligation of art...

#Surgical Anatomy and Physiology.#--Lymph is essentially blood plasma, which has passed through the walls of capillaries. After bathing and nourishing the tissues, it is collect...

#Contusion of Muscle.#--Contusion of muscle, which consists in bruising of its fibres and blood vessels, may be due to violence acting from without, as in a blow, a kick, or a f...

To prolong human life and to alleviate suffering are the ultimate objects of scientific medicine. The two great branches of the healing art--Medicine and Surgery--are so intimat...

The process of _ulceration_ may be defined as the molecular or cellular death of tissue taking place on a free surface. It is essentially of the same nature as the process of su...

Inflammation may be defined as the series of vital changes that occurs in the tissues in response to irritation. These changes represent the reaction of the tissue elements to t...

Of these, one of the most important is undue movement of the affected part. "The first and great requisite for the restoration of injured parts is _rest_," said John Hunter; and...

Tubercle bacillus--Methods of infection--Inherited and acquired predisposition--Relationship of tuberculosis to injury--Human and bovine tuberculosis--Action of the bacillus upo...

#Syncope or Fainting.#--Syncope is the result of a suddenly produced anæmia of the brain from temporary weakening or arrest of the heart's action. In surgical practice, this con...

The surgeon is called upon to treat two distinct classes of wounds: (1) those resulting from injury or disease in which _the skin is already broken_, or in which a communication...

Anatomy--Normal and adventitious bursæ--Injuries: Bursal hæmatoma--DISEASES: Infective bursitis; Traumatic or trade bursitis; Bursal hydrops; Solid bursal tumour; Gonorrhœal and...