A modification of the usual operation for lacerated perineum / by John T. Hodgen.

  • Hodgen, John T. (John Thompson), 1826-1882.
Date:
[1860?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A modification of the usual operation for lacerated perineum / by John T. Hodgen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    In these two points consists the advantages claimed for the modi- fied operation. E is at the free margins of the skin flaps; E A is line of junction, by inter- rupted sutures, of margins of flaps taken from incision B B. The dotted lines represent the portions of the wire which are buried in the tissues, and the black and white portions are external to the tissues. The margins of the flaps, which correspond to the outer borders of the denuded surfaces, are without sutures, leaving thus an opening for the discharge of pus from any part of the denuded surfaces which may not unite by first intention, and preventing the formation of openings for the discharge of pus along the line of the sutures. Dr. M. A. Pallen has also recently performed the operation above described on three patients.