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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articulation with the head of the tibia. Theknife must be kept close to the bone, in order to avoid the anteriortibial nerves. Fig. 18. Kefs. 1. Vertical section of the upper part of the pero-neus longus muscle, in order to lay bare the bone. 2. Anterior tibialvessels uninjured. 3. Articular surface of the tibia, which maj alsobe resected if found diseased. 4. Lower fragment of the fibula.5. Part of the peroneus longus muscle. Figs. 15, 16. Extirpation of the Scaphoid Bone, andResection op the internal Cuneiform. This figure fromBourgery is given as an example of what might be attempted incase of caries of the internal border of the tarsus, involving eitherthe articulation of the scaphoid with the astragalus and cuneiformbones, or the latter bones at their place of junction with the meta-tarsal. Fig. 17. Refs. 1. Tendon of the long flexor of the great toe.2. Adductor muscle of the great toe. 3. Vertical section of thescaphoid, all the internal mass of the bone being removed. i PL. 59
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