Plastic and cosmetic surgery

The operating room: The walls; The floors; Skylight; Disinfection; Instrument cabinet; Operating table; Instrument table; Irrigator—Care of instruments—Preparation of the surgeo...

Incisions—Sutures—Needles—Needle holders—Methods in plastic operations: Stretching method; Sliding method; Twisting method; Implantation of pedunculated flaps by bridging; Trans...

Restoration of the auricle—Auricular protheses—Coloboma—Malformation of the lobule: Enlargement of the lobule; Attachment of the lobe—Malformation of the auricle: Microtia—Auric...

Harelip: Classification of harelip deformities; The operative correction of harelip; Of unilateral labial cleft; Of congenital bilateral labial cleft; Post-operative treatment o...

Indications—Precautions—The advantage of the method—Untoward results: Intoxication; Reaction; Infection; Necrosis; Sloughing; Sloughing due to pressure; Subinjection; Hyperinjec...

The causes of nasal destruction—Classification of deformities—Surgical technique—Protheses—Nasal replanting—Nasal transplanting—Total rhinoplasty: Pedunculated flap method; The...

Angular nasal deformity—Correction of elevated lobule—Correction of bulbous lobule—Angular excision to correct lobule—Correction of malformations about nasal lobule—Deficiency o...

The electric battery—The voltage or electromotive force—Cell selector—Milliampèremeter—The electric current—Portable batteries—Electrodes—Removal of superfluous hair—Removal of...

It seems almost incredible that at this late day so little is generally known to the surgical profession of the beautiful and practical, not to say grateful, art of plastic or r...

The ideal operating room for the plastic surgeon need not necessarily be large, since it requires less work to render it aseptic. Furniture and possibly amphitheater accommodati...

Natural or sea sponges are now little used in surgery, owing to their peculiar cellular construction. They invite and readily retain spores and germs, are difficult to clean, an...

These are solutions used for the destruction of and to arrest the progress of microörganisms that have found their way into wounds—the cause of sepsis, as exhibited by fever, su...

The elasticity of the skin is especially serviceable in bringing about desirable restorative results, but, owing to its extreme vascularity and the infrequent supply of venous v...

=Symptoms.=—After operations performed under the most thorough aseptic or antiseptic procedure, wound fever, more or less marked, may be expected. It develops a few hours after...

It is not the intention of the writer to dilate upon the nature and use of anesthetics, as their value and indication has been fully exploited. A concise review of these agents,...

Plastic surgery is resorted to in covering defects of the skin due to congenital or traumatic malformation, injuries, burns, the removal of neoplasms, or the ulcerative processe...

VI. The cicatrization following inflammatory lesions of the orbital borders, especially those of the supra-orbital ridge. Since the upper lid lies below the supra-orbital ridge,...

Traumatisms of the auricle, owing to the exposed position of that organ, are frequently met with and are commonly the result of stab wounds, direct blows, shot wounds, and human...

This branch of plastic surgery has to do with the correction of deformities of the lips. These deformities usually involve one lip only, and are dependent upon direct traumatism...

This branch of surgery has to do with the plastic restoration of the oral orifice. Operations of this kind are required to enlarge a contracted mouth, termed microstoma, whether...

This branch of surgery has to do with the reconstruction or restoration of the cheek following the excision of scars or the extirpation of malignant growths. The procedure is al...

Although the subcutaneous employment of oil and liquefied paraffin has been known for some years, particularly by Corning, who refers to his use of solidifying oils in surgery i...

Rhinoplastic operations serve to correct deformities of or restore the nose. Such operations may involve only a part of or the entire organ, hence may be termed partial or total...

The operations herein considered have to do with overcoming deformities, congenital or acquired, as a result of traumatism, and in which there is no loss of tissue, the sole obj...

Several references have been made in the preceding chapter to the specific use of electricity without a description, however, of its source or application. The author does not d...

Every case, whether of little consequence or of important nature, should be properly and fully recorded in a thorough and systematic manner. Apart from the value of such a recor...