An essay on the shoulder-joint operation : principally deduced from anatomical observation / by W.W. Fraser.

  • Fraser, William Wemyss, -1832.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An essay on the shoulder-joint operation : principally deduced from anatomical observation / by W.W. Fraser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tact with a f<r bleeding* part:” he could not fail to observe how it was thrown from the % interior part of the wound; and thence argues strenuously in favor of the opening which he leaves. The perpendicular incision of this author, is improved by Mr. Charles Bell, who has rounded the two flaps, convexing them towards each other, by which means a very neat sur- face is left, and some degree of pain saved. Charles Bell recommends the patient being seated on a chair, and an instrument, like a boot-hook, being* used to compress the sub- clavian artery, on which, he says, you are not entirely to depend, a second assistant is to grasp the axillary cord, and to hold the vessel in readiness for the ^ needle.” The convexing flaps being formed, the surgeon makes an incision through the capsule and long head of the biceps; the assistant then pushes the arm bone out of the socket; and the operator carrying the scalpel, his only instrument, close to the humerus, divides the