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 Xl.l OPERATIVE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. 13 PLATE XI. Fig. 2. Bleeding- in the Jugular Vein. The externaljugular vein is sometimes opened in cases of apoplexy in adults,and in children if the veins at the elbow are hidden by fat. Thepatient, if a child, being laid in the nurses lap, with its head to-wards the surgeon, the latter puts his left thumb on the vein a littleabove the clavicle, and then opens it with a lancet at a pointmarked in the figure, cutting towards the thumb, and in a directiondownwards and inwards, so that the incision may cross the fibresof the platysma. The wound should be closed by lint and plaster.Instead of the thumb, a compress may be placed on the vein, and besecured by a bandage carried under the axilla of the opposite side.If an adult, the patient may be placed in the sitting posture, if pre-ferred. Fig. 3. The Superficial Temporal Artery. The maintrunk of this vessel passes over the zygomatic process of the tem-poral bone, about a quarter of an inch in fr

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