Contributions to reparative surgery : showing its application to the treatment of deformities, produced by destructive disease or injury ; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development, and cicatricial contractions from burns / by Gurdon Buck.

  • Buck Gurdon, 1807-1877.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Contributions to reparative surgery : showing its application to the treatment of deformities, produced by destructive disease or injury ; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development, and cicatricial contractions from burns / by Gurdon Buck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a double tbickness of sheet-lint, spread on one side with cerate to prevent its adhering. The operation occupied two hours, and was well borne by the pa- tient. His subsequent progress was favorable and requires no special notice. On the fourth day the last sutures were removed. On the sixth day the Fig. 40. collodion crust became detached from the forehead and came off, and the underlying healthy, granulating surface was thereafter dressed in the ordinary way, till it finally cicatrized. The result of the operation is shown by Fig. 40. Second; Operation.—Was performed June 28th, for the purpose of leveling the two prominences re-