Identifier: treatiseonoperat1784shar (find matches)
Title: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the inrstruments (sic) used in performing them : to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses, and ulcers
Year: 1784 (1780s)
Authors: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgical instruments and apparatus Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: London : Printed for G. Robinson ...
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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off the coagulated blood, thatwould otherwife fatten them (o hard to theligature as to make the extraction painful. The twifled future is of great fervice in fi-flulas of the urethra remaining after the ope-ration for the flone; in which cafe the cal-lous edges may be cut off, and the lips of thewound be held together by this method; CHAP. XXXV,Of the Wry Neck. *np HE operation of cutting the wry neck is1■*■ very uncommon; and is never to be prae-tifed but when the diforder is owing to a con-traction of the maftoid<zus mufele only; as itcan anfwer no purpofe to fet that mufele free;by dividing it, (which is all that is to be done)^if the others in the neck are in the fame ftate*and more efpecially if it has been of longHanding from infancy ; becaufe the growthof the vertebra will have been determined inthat direction, and make it impomble to fetthe head upright. When the cafe is fair, the operation is this.Having laid your patient on a table, make a tranfverfe Pag. I87 Plate 13
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Operations o/SurgerY. 187 tranfverfe incilion through the fkin and fat,fomething broader than the mufcle, and notabove half an inch from the clavicle; thenpaffing the probed razor with care underneaththe mufcle, draw it out and cut the mufcle.The great veffels of the neck he underneath ;but I think, when we are aware of their fitua-ation, the danger of wounding them maybe avoided. After the incilion is made, thewound is to be crammed with dry lint, andalways dreffed fo as to prevent the extemitiesof the mufcle from re-uniting; to which end,they are to be feparated from each other asmuch as poflible by the affiftance of a fup-porting bandage for the head, during thewhole time of the cure, which will generallybe about a month. PLATE XIII.The Explanation. A. The inftrument called the probe-razor,to cut the majloidteus mufcle in the wry neck;and is fharp only about half its length, at thatend where the blade is broad. B. The two pins with the twifled future,ufed in the hare-lip. C. The po

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