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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utional treatment,and counter irritation by means of an issue behind the great tro-chanter, or at the interior edge of the tensor vagina3 femoris, or bya seton in the groin; and these measures should not be neglected,even though suppuration has commenced. When abscess forms, it should not be opened too early; and whenit is opened, it should be done in a manner similar to that recom-mended for lumbar abscess. This plan of treatment, however, SirB. Brodie does not believe to possess any advantage. Excision of plate clx.) OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. 277 the head of the femur was successfully performed by Mr. White, in1818, and by Mr. Fergusson, in 1841, in cases that would, no doubt,have otherwise terminated fatally; but, as Mr. Fergusson confesses,the bones of the pelvis are often so extensively diseased as to pre-clude the possibility of a cure by this operation. Mr. Fergussons case is shown in Plate LXV. Fig. 1, and themanner of treatment after the operation in Plate CLV. Fig. 5.24
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