Volume 1

The first lines of the practice of surgery : designed as an introduction to students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / By Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1819-20
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    surfaces 171. Quickness of union by the first intention, 173. This mode of cure applicable to the generality of wounds, ib. Some remarks made by M. Roux on the subject, criticised, ib. CHAP. XVI. PUNCTURED WOUNDS. Their dangers, 175. Causes of the frequent bad symptoms, i6. Treat- ment of punctured wounds, 176. The dilatation of their orifices not proper as a general custom, ib. Setons and stimulating injections condemned, 178. Treatment to be followed, 179. CHAP. XVII. CONTUSED AND LACERATED WOUNDS. Manner in which they are produced, 180. Of contusions and contused wounds, ib. The latter not capable of union by the first intention, to any great extent, 181. They should not, however, be left widely gaping, ib. Much pressure and constriction improper, ib. Contused wounds do not usually bleed much, i8z. Whole limbs torn off without hemorrhage, ib. Treatment and dressings, ib. and 183. Cold applications, ib. Great ne- cessity of paying particular attention in these cases to the removal of ex- traneous substances, iJ. Amputation sometimes necessary, i84. » CHAP. XVIII. OF GRANULATIONS AND CICATRIZATION. Their nature, 184. Of the contraction of, granulations, 186. New skin verydifierent in texture from granulations, 187. How produced not ex- actly known, ib. Mostly extends itself from the edge of the old skin, 187. Differences between the old and new skin, ib. Cuticle forms at every point of the new cutis, 188. CHAP. XIX. GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Ways in which they are produced, 188. Former erroneous opinions re- specting the parts being burnt, or poisoned, ib. These wounds always at- tended with agreatdeal ofcontusion and laceration, 189. Their surfaces must generally slough, and suppurate, ib. They seldom bleed, ib. Certain case# bleed much more than others, i6. Exact nature of many cases not known till the sloughs separate, 190; On their detachment a risk of hemorrhage, and extravasations, ib. Circumstances rendering the wound simple, or com- pound, ib. Ordinary symptoms of gunshot wounds, 191. Great mental and corporeal agitation not constant on the receipt even of severe injuries, ib. Causes of the winding course which some balls take in the substance of the body, 19a. Extraordinary instances of such occurrences, ib. Nature of wind contusions, 193. Extraneous bodies liable to be lodged in gunshot wounds, 194. Treatment of gunshot wounds, 196. Of some cases requiring im- mediate amputation, and remarks on others, in which doubts are entertained, i6. and 197. Bilguer’s opinion about amputation, ib. Of the proper time for the operation, when there is no chance of saving the limb, 198. Of the common idea, that healthy persons who meet with bad accidents can- not bear amputation so well as other subjects, who are habituated to dis- ease, ib. When the operation is at first plainly unavoidable for a bad gun- shot wound, it should be done without delay, 199. It cannot be done with advantage, when inflammation has extended far over the limb, aoi. Fur-