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 cxlix.) OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. 251 PLATE CXLIX. Fig. 1. Dislocation of the humerus forward.Fig. 2. Dislocation of the humerus downward. Partial Dislocation of the Humerus forward, (Fig. 5,Plate CXLVI.) Symptoms. The symptoms are, projection of theacromion, and a hollow under it at the back of the joint, while thehead of the bone is prominent in front, and may be felt to move onrotating the elbow, cramps of the hand, and difficulty of raising theelbow. Fig. 3. Partial dislocation of the humerus, found in a subject atSt. Thomass Hospital. Fig. 4. Dislocation of the humerus backward. Fig. 6. Partial dislocation of the humerus upward. Fig. 5. Fracture of the neck of the humerus, with dislocationforward, under the pectoral muscle. PLATE CL. Treatment in Cases of Dislocation of the Humerus.1. By simple extension. A towel, or an apparatus as in Fig. 3,is to be passed round the chest, so as to fix the scapula. Anothershould be fastened round the arm by means of the knot, (Fig. 2

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