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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llowing course succeeded : Thepatient, a soldier, was laid upon his left side, and his right anklewas grasped by a comrade, who, when ordered by the surgeon, 240 OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. (PLATE CXLII. suddenly carried the heel back to the hip. The motion was scarcelycompleted, when the patella audibly returned to its socket. Dislocation of the patella upon its edge has been reduced by press-ing the edges of the bone in opposite directions while the leg wasextended. Dislocation of the Patella upward. The bone is drawnupward, and is easily moved from side to side; and the patientloses the power of bearing upon the limb. In a case from Liston,the bone was drawn three inches from its natural situation. Treatment. The treatment which was adopted in this case wasas follows : The limb was placed on an inclined plane, a bandagewas lightly applied, so as to retain a pasteboard splint on the pop-liteal aspect of the bone. The parts, by this means, were broughtinto their natural situation.
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