The treatment of spina bifida by a new method / by James morton.

  • Morton, James (Biological scientist)
Date:
1877
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Credit: The treatment of spina bifida by a new method / by James morton. 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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    punctured the sac with a grooved needle, and drew off part of the fluid, a cotton-wool pad and binder being applied. The opera- tion was repeated four days afterwards. On neither occasion did the child suffer from constitutional disturbance. On the 28th, after drawing off half the contents through the needle of a subcutaneous syringe from the bluish spot, at the upper and left side of the tumour, I injected through the same needle half-a-drachm of the iodo-glycerine solution (previously warmed at the fire to liquefy it). Flexile collodion was painted over the minute opening, and a piece of lint dipped in olive oil, with a pad of cotton wool laid on it; the binder firmly securing the whole. The child cried lustily after the operation, and in about ten minutes sud- denly turned pallid in the face, the nurse exclaiming that it was dying. Fifteen drops of brandy in a teaspoonful of water were