The first lines of the practice of surgery : being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1828
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Credit: The first lines of the practice of surgery : being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII. Furunculus, or boil .... 40 Symptoms 40 Treatment 40 CHAPTER VIII. Carbuncle 41 Topical treatment ... 41 Constitutional treatment 41 CHAPTER IX. (Edema Causes Treatment CHAPTER x. Burns . . Treatment CHAPTER XI. Effects of cold Chilblains Symptoms . Causes Treatment. CHAPTER XII. Wounds . Incised wounds CHAPTER XIII. Means of stopping hemorrhage 1. Tourniquet . . . Ligature .... Compression . . . Agaric .... Actual cautery . . Potential cautery . Styptics .... Particular remarks . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 42 42 43 44 44 46 47 47 48 48 49 50 50 51 51 53 53 54 54 54 55 CHAPTER XIV. Extraction of foreign bodies from wounds; union by the first intention^ 8fc. . 56 Union by the first intention 56 Position of the part . . 57 Uniting, or incarnative bandage 57 Adhesive plaster .... 57 Sutures 58 Interrupted suture ... 58 Quilled suture .... 59 Rejection of sutures . . 59 CHAPTER XV. Process by which the wound is united 61 CHAPTER XVI. Punctured wounds . . . .61 Treatment 62 CHAPTER XVII. Lacerated and contused wounds 64 Treatment . • . . . . 65 chapter xvm. Granulations and cicatrization 66 Growth of new skin over granulations .... 68 chapter xix. Gunshot wounds . . . . 69 Kind of body projected 69 Velocity of the projected body 70 Nature and peculiarities of the parts injured . . 70 Of circumstances influenc- ing the course of balls . 70 Of gunshot contusions . . 71 Extraneous bodies usually lodged in gunshot wounds 71