CHAPTER V.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Hair suture.—The eye douche, drops for the eye.—Syringing the ears.—Epistaxis; Ice-cold injection; Plugging the nares; Belloc’s sound.—Drawing teeth; varieties of forceps; extracting incisors and canines, bicuspids, upper molars, lower molars, wisdom molars, roots; the elevator.—Stopping bleeding after extraction.—Sore nipples; nipple shields.—Plugging the vagina; Kite’s tail plug for vagina.—Injecting the urethra. Catheters, silver; different kinds of flexible catheters and bougies; conformation of the urethra.—Passing catheters and bougies; difficulties in doing so; passing the female catheter.—Washing out the bladder.—Tying in catheters.—Position for lithotomy.—Bed-sores, applications to prevent the formation of bed-sores; the floating bed; the water-cushion.—The stomach-pump, when used to empty the stomach or to inject food.—Transfusion of blood; precautions; mode of using the apparatus.—Tourniquets; the Ring; Petit’s; Signoroni’s; Carte’s; Lister’s; the make-shift.—Mercurial fumigation; general; local.—Hot air baths.—Vapour baths.—Sick carriage.—Cupping.—Junod’s boot.—Leeches.—Stopping leech bites.—Tents.—Setons.—Drainage tubes.—Issues.—Trusses, requirements of, inguinal, femoral, umbilical, Salmon and Ody’s.—Cauteries, iron; gas; galvanic. Caustics.—Vesicants, mustard, cantharides, iodine.—Corrigan’s hammer.—Poultices and fomentations.—Lister’s mode of dressing with carbolic acid.—Irrigation; Esmarch’s irrigator.—Administration of chloroform, precautions; dangers; methods; Clover’s inhaler.—Artificial respiration.—Local anæsthesia.—Ether spray, pulverised fluids.—Chloroform vapour to the uterus.—Subcutaneous injection.—Collodion. —Vaccination 116-192

LIST OF APPLIANCES FOR THE OPERATING ROOM AND THE SICK ROOM.—LIST OF SEDATIVES AND RESTORATIVES.—FOR THE ARREST OF HÆMORRHAGE 195-197

LIST OF INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN OPERATIONS—

ON THE HEAD AND NECK.

Trephining the skull.—Operations on the eye.—Hare-lip.—Resection of the jaw.—Excision of the tongue.—Cleft palate.—Excision of tonsils.—Laryngotomy.—Tracheotomy 198-202

ON THE TRUNK.

Removal of breast or tumours.—Nævus.—Tapping the pleura.—Tapping the belly.—Colotomy.—Ovariotomy.—Cæsarian section.—Strangulated hernia.—Radical cure of hernia.—Hæmorrhoids.—Fistula in ano.—Cleft perinæum.—Extirpation of the cervix uteri.—Amputation of the penis.—Circumcision.—Excision of testis.—Tapping a hydrocele.—Vesico-vaginal fistula.—Retention of urine.—External urethrotomy.—Lithotomy.—Lithotrity.—For removing foreign bodies from the urethra and bladder 203-210

ON THE LIMBS.

Ligature of the larger arteries.—Resections: of the head of the humerus, the elbow, the hip, the knee.—Removal of necrosed bone.—Amputations: at the shoulder-joint; arm; fore-arm and wrist; metacarpus; hip; thigh and leg; Syme and Chopart’s operation; metatarsus and toes 211-215

THE

ESSENTIALS OF BANDAGING,

&c.