Operative surgery, adapted to the living and dead subject / by C.F. Maunder.

Date:
1860-1861
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Credit: Operative surgery, adapted to the living and dead subject / by C.F. Maunder. 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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    comparatively useful, although short member. The fleshy ball of the thumb forms 'a cushion, upon which the first phalanx rests, in such a manner as to offer a very fair amount of antagonism to the fingers. Operation.— Make an incision along the outer border of the bone, beginning the third of an inch above the superior articulation, and terminating the same distance beyond the metacarpophalangeal articulation. At each extremity of this cut, two short transverse incisions may be made, running outwards, so as to allow of the formation of a flap, as in fig. 57. This flap containing the extensors primi b c a Fig. 57. and secundi internodii (b, c), is to be dissected up, and the soft parts on the palmar surface are also to be carefully shaved off close to the bone, without injuring the tendon of the flexor longus pollicis muscle. An assistant holding aside the above- mentioned extensors, the surgeon opens the distal articulation on the dorsal surface, enters the joint, and divides all ligamentous attachments. This done,