Pathological technique : a practical manual for workers in pathological histology and bacteriology / by Frank Burr Mallory and James Homer Wright.

  • Mallory, Frank Burr, 1862-1941.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Pathological technique : a practical manual for workers in pathological histology and bacteriology / by Frank Burr Mallory and James Homer Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be removed from the cavities for further examination in the reverse order, beginning with the heart. The primary or long miterior incision to bare the thorax and to open the abdomen (Fig. 5) should extend from the larynx to the pubes, passing to the left of the umbilicus, so as not to cut the round ligament. In cutting, the handle of the knife is depressed so as to use the belly of the blade rather Fig. 5.—Primary incision in the body (Nauwerck). than the point. An incision beginning as high as the chin is, unfortunately, rarely allowable. Over the sternum the cut should extend down to the bone; over the abdomen, however, only into the muscles, or in fat people through the muscles into the subperitoneal fat-tissue. To open the ab- dominal cavity, nick carefully through the peritoneum just bdow the sternum, introduce the first and second fingers of