Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations / by Robert Liston ; with numerous additions by Thomas D. Mütter.

  • Liston, Robert, 1794-1847.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations / by Robert Liston ; with numerous additions by Thomas D. Mütter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE I. Importance of Operative Surgery.—A thorough knowledge of anatomy neces- sary.—Incisions.—Hemorrhage.—Dressing wounds.—Union of wounds.— Sutures.—Abscess of the scalp.—Tumours of the scalp.—Ulcers of the scalp.—Opening temporal artery, ... - • 13 LECTURE II. Injuries of the scalp, of the cranium, and of the brain.—Lacerated wounds.— Fissures of the cranium.—The Trephine and its indications.—Illustrated cases, - - - - - - - - -71 LECTURE III. Indications for the use of the trephine.—Stys, or cysts of the eyelids.—Bleed- ing from the conjunctiva.—Trichiasis and Distichiasis.—Pterygium.—Tu- mours of the conjunctiva.—Deformed fissure.—Ptosis.—Lagophthalmos.— Coloboma palpebral.—Phimosis palpebrarum.—Anchylo-blepharon.—Sym- blepharon.—Eversion and inversion of the lids.—Operation for squinting.— Staphyloma.—Tumours of the orbit, &c. &c. &c, - - - 86 LECTURE IV. Extirpation of the eye.—Diseases of the lachrymal passages.—Fistula lachry- malis.—Cataract.—Extraction of foreign bodies from the nostrils and ears. Obstructions of the nasal duct.—Polypi, - - - - - 116 LECTURE V. Ulceration of the nose.—Fractures of nasal bones.—Wounds and abscess of the nose.—Rupia.—Lupus.—Restoration of the nose.—Operations for the restoration of the alae, - - - - - - - 161 LECTURE VI. The Nose.—Enlargement of the follicles.—Encysted tumour of the Ala?. • Epistaxis.—Congenital Deformities of the face.—Hare-lip.—Fissure of the Palate, - - - - - - * - 181 LECTURE VII. Diseases of the antrum.—Carious teeth.—Wounds of the face.—Erectile tu- mours of the face.—Solid and encysted tumours, ... - 213 LECTURE VIII. Ulcerations of the face.—Ulcers of the lip.—Cheiloplastic operation.—Meta- plastic operations.—Atresia oris.—Noli me tangere.—Ulcerations at the angles ol the mouth.—Diseases of the tongue.—Fissure.—Tumours under the tongue,—Hypertrophy of the tongue.—Stammering.—Ranula, - 227