Identifier: operativesurgery00pipe (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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PLATE Lix.) OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. 97 PLATE LIX. Fig. 1, Resection of the lower End of the Fibula. AnL incision (Fig. 7) is made, and the flap dissected up and turnedback; the bone is isolated so as to pass a band beneath it on whichto work a chain saw, as seen in the figure. After the bone is di-vided, the fragment is turned out, as in Fig. 5, and disarticulatedwith the knife, Fig. 2. Extirpation of the Metatarsal Bone of theGreat Toe. An incision in the form of Fig. 3 is made, and theflap turned up, as in the figure. The bone is disarticulated at bothends with the scalpel, and turned out of its place. Fig. 4 shows the parts exposed. Refs. 1. The internal cunei-form bone. 2. Extensor tendon of the great toe. 3. Interosseousmuscle. 4. First phalanx of the toe. At the bottom of the woundare seen the interosseous vessels. Fig. 5 shows the operation nearly finished. At the lower part ofthe wound are seen the tendons of the two long peronei muscles. Fig. 9. Refs. 1, 1. Flaps rever

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