Text Book Of Surgical Operations V1 1915

Author : John A. Wyeth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330332535
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book A Text-Book on Surgery written by John A. Wyeth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text-Book on Surgery: General, Operative, and Mechanical The materials used in the performance of a surgical operation, and in its after-treatment, form such an important part of the surgeons outfit that I have determined to devote the initial chapter of this book to a description of the methods of preparing and preserving the apparatus needed for dressing wounds in the antiseptic practice of to-day. This practice, which embodies the great principles of cleanliness and carefulness in surgery, is now so well established among the best surgeons in America and Europe that any argument in its favor, as compared with the methods of one or two decades ago, I consider to be wholly unnecessary. Ligatures and Sutures. - Catgut, silk, silk-worm gut, and silver wire will meet every requirement in tying vessels and closing wounds. Catgut has practically superseded all other substances as a ligature. The conditions which would justify the application of a silk, metal, or any non-absorbable ligature to an artery are rarely present. Strings or cords made from animal tissues, as buckskin, ox-aorta, nerve, tendon, and whalebone, known under the general name of "broad ligatures," have been successfully employed in the occlusion of the larger vessels, but their use is limited in comparison with that of the violin-strings, which are easily obtained, prepared and preserved, and are, moreover, cheap. In the preparation of catgut select four sizes of the best quality of violin-strings in about this proportion: one dozen each of the E and A strings, six D strings, and two or three harp-strings about twice as large as that of D, violin. The smaller sizes are most generally needed for the smaller vessels and bleeding points, the D string is best adapted to vessels as large as the radials, ulnars, or tibials, while the larger or harp-strings should be used upon the iliacs, subclavians, common carotids, and femorals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.