Bier's hyperemic treatment in surgery, medicine, and the specialties : a manual of its practical application / by Willy Meyer and Victor Schmieden.

  • Meyer, Willy, 1858-1932
Date:
1908
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Credit: Bier's hyperemic treatment in surgery, medicine, and the specialties : a manual of its practical application / by Willy Meyer and Victor Schmieden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Possibility of Using Small Instead of Large Incisions in the Cases in which Suppuration has Already Set in. Hastening the Course of the Pathologic Pro- cess. Favoring Ab- sorption. Diminution of Pain. Wide Field of Usefulness. iy BIER'S HYPEREMIC TREATMENT. In cases in which suppuration is unavoidable even with the aid of artificial hyperemia, owing to the intensity of the infection, Bier’s treatment enables us to accomplish with small incisions, what formerly could be achieved with large ones only. This has been shown by manifold practi- cal experiences. The advantage is obvious. The increased supply of blood hastens markedly the course of a suppuration, inasmuch as it favors the rapid development or demarcation and separation of necrosed portions in soft tissues as well as in bones (rapid formation of sequestra). The hyperemic treatment has been found most useful in that it favors the absorption of exudates and pathologic tissue changes of various kinds. There is no other method that is superior to hyperemic treatment in point of gentleness and painlessness of appli- cation as well as tendency to reduce pain. Bier’s treatment can be employed to advantage in a large variety of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. It is applicable and has proven useful in surgery, medicine, and the specialties alike.