A manual of operative surgery / By Lewis A. Stimson ... and John Rogers, jr.

  • Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1844-1917.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A manual of operative surgery / By Lewis A. Stimson ... and John Rogers, jr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The ether is placed in a bottle provided with a tightly- fitting cork through which passes a rubber tube. The free end of the tube is iuserted in the rectum, and the bottle placed in warm water. The precautious to be observed are that the water should not be warmer than 100° Fahr., and that as soon as anes- thesia is obtained the tube should be withdrawn from the rectum, to be reapplied if necessary. The tube should be large, and should extend downward from the anus to the bottle without loops or coils in which the ether might con- dense. ARREST OF HEMORRHAGE. Hemorrhage is arrested : (1) by ligature ; (2) by torsion ; (3) by pressure; (4) by cold or heat; (5) by position. Fig. 1. Artery forceps. Fig. 2. Self-holdiug hsernostatic forceps. Ligature. ceps (Figs. 1, The vessel or bleeding point is seized by for- 2, and 3) with as little of the surrounding