Volume 1

The science and art of surgery : a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations / by John Eric Erichsen.

Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The science and art of surgery : a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations / by John Eric Erichsen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS OF THE FIEST VOLUME. DIVISION FIRST. FIEST PRINCIPLES. Chapter, I.—General Considerations on Operations. pa<;u Objects of Surgical Operations—Present Position of Operative Surgery—Manual Dexterity and Scientific Knowledge Required Conditions Influencing Success of Operations—State of General Health— 1—5 Hygienic Conditions—Special Conditions excited by the Operation itself . 5 17 Preparations for Operation 18 19 Employment of Anaesthetics—History—Influence on Mortality after Operations— Chloroform—Its Administration—Death from Chloroform—Secondary Effects— Ether—Death from Administration of Ether—Comparison between Ether and Chloroform—Nitrous Oxide Gas—Death from Administration of Nitrous Oxide —Nitrous Oxide and Ether—Bichloride of Methylene—Treatment of Effects of Overdose of Anaesthetics—Local Anaesthesia 19—36 Performance of an Operation—Incisions 36—10 Prevention of Hemorrhage during Operations — The Tourniquet and its Application—Compression by Elastic Tubing or Bandage—Bloodless Methods— Compression of Main Arteries 10—50 Constitutional Effects of Operations—Local Treatment of Wounds—After- treatment—Diet—Remote Effect . 50—51 Chapter II.—Amputations and Disarticulations. Performance of an Amputation—History of Amputation—Clumsy Instruments —Amputation by Circular Method—Flap Amputation—Principles of Amputa- tion—Double Flaps—Mode of Raising the Covering—Amputation by the Modi- fied Circular Method—Liston’s Method,—Long Anterior Flaps—Teale’s Operation —-Spence’s and Lister’s Methods—Oval Method—Sawing the Bone—Arrest of Hemorrhage—Closure of the Wound—Dressing the Stump—Amputating Instru- ments—Simultaneous or Rapidly Consecutive Amputation of two Limbs . 52—70 Stumps—Structure of a Stump—Artificial Limbs—Morbid Conditions of Stumps— Septic Ostco-myclitis — Necrosis—Conical or Sugar-loaf Stumps—Aneurismal Enlargement of Arteries — Painful and Spasmodic Stumps — Recurrence of Disease—Fatty Degeneration of Stumps 70—7R Mortality after Amputation—Hygienic Conditions—Effect of Age—General Health—Influence of Shock and Septic Diseases—Effects of Antiseptic Treat- ment Seat of Amputation—Part of Bone—Injury or Disease—Nature of Disease lime of Performance —Primary and Secondary Amputations—Sum-