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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which has been well described by Vidal as the ne plusultra of the surgeon. Fig. 7. Hefs. 1, 2, 3, 4. Contour of the wound, and the partfrom whence the bone has been removed. Figs. 9, 8. Resection of the Body of the Jaw on theRight Side. The points for dividing the bone being at the caninetooth, and at the origin of the ramus, a vertical incision is madethrough the lip to the base of the chin. Another incision, start-ing from the middle of the posterior part of the ramus of the jaw,is carried down to the angle, and then along the base of the jaw tothe vertical incision at the chin. The flap is dissected off from thebone, and reflected upward on the cheek. The first molar tooth isremoved to give room to the saw in dividing the bone. The boneis next separated by dissection from the soft parts on its inner face,and a guttered instrument passed below it, on the groove of whichthe chain saw of Jeffrey is passed, as seen in the drawing, for thepurpose of making the section of the bone. PL.61
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