Identifier: medicalsurgicalt03good (find matches)
Title: Medical and surgical therapy
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Goodwin, T. H. (Thomas Herbert), b. 1871, ed Keogh, Alfred, Sir, 1857-1936, ed
Subjects: Medicine, Military Military Medicine Surgery
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 16.—To prevent any haemorrhage the assistant presses the ulnarborder of his hand firmly on the scalp. The surgeon does the samewith his left hand laid flat, then incises between his hand andthat of his assistant, and immediately puts on the T-forceps. . the bleeding after their removal absent or very slight.A similar manoeuvre is repeated on the two othersides of the square flap, and when the flap has beenthus completed the two lips of the incision are furnishedwith forceps, and not a drop of blood has been spilt.At this time and during the rest of the operation
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^f,-;/ Figs. 17 and 18.—View of the field of operation after turningback the temporary osteo-plastic flap. TRF.ATMENT OF WOUND OF SKULL 793 the forceps on the internal Hp of the incision wouldbe very inconvenient, but as they no longer serveany useful purpose they can be removed. Indeed,the cutaneous flap can no longer receive any bloodexcept through its base, but at this level all circula-

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