The science and practice of surgery / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Frederick James Gant
Date:
1871
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Credit: The science and practice of surgery / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Surgery, as a primary division of Medicine ; as a Science and a Scientific Art. The relative importance of Diagnosis, Etiology, and Prognosis; and their relation, severally, to Treatment. The relative guidance of Pathological Anatomy and of Pathology. Also, in the design and performance of Surgical Operations. Com- parison of the Continental and English Schools of Surgery. Conditions Favourable and Unfavourable for Operation. Prepara- tion of Patient. Arrangements for Operation—The Room, Table, Instruments, Assistants. Anaesthetics. Historical notice. Chloroform—its Physiological Action. Phenomena or Symp- toms. Contra-indications to the employment of Chloroform, and exceptional Operations. Administration of Chloroform, and signs of anaesthesia. Inhalers. Death from Chloroform—by Asjmyxia, Cardiac Syncope, Coma, persistent sickness. Treat- ment of an overdose. Other Anaesthetics—Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. Sulphuric Ether. Bichloride of Methylene. Chloral. Local Anaesthesia. Freezing—by frigorific mixtures, ether-spray. Dangers attending, or consequent on, Surgical Operations. Dressing of the Wound, and Constitutional After- treatment. Results of Operation—Temporary, Permanent. Modes of Unsuccessful Results. PART I. GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND SURGERY. DISEASES OF NUTRITION. Chapter I.—Inflammation. Nutrition ......... 20 Inflammation ........ 23 Textural Changes, and State of the Circulation and Blood-vessels ....... 23
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