Identifier: operativesurgery00pipe (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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f necessary)between the edges of the wound, for the first four days, so as toprevent them from uniting, and to cause it to granulate from thebottom. If violent hemorrhage follows the operation, and doesnot yield to the application of cold, the anus must be well dilatedwith a speculum, so as to expose the bleeding surface to the air, andany artery discernible may be tied; or else it may be firmlyplugged with lint, which is to be secured by a T bandage. Operation for Prolapsus Ani. 1. The mildest consists in 184 OPEEATIYE SURGERY ILLUSTRATED. (plate cvi. pinching up two or three folds of mucous membrane on the pro-truded bowel, with forceps, and tying them tightly with ligatures.2. Or ligatures may be passed by needles through several folds ofskin, just at the margin of the anus, which are then to be tied uptightly, or a small patch of mucous membrane may be destroyedby acid. Excision of a portion of the sphincter ani is sometimes practised.Plate CVII. Fig. 4 shows this operation. PL fM
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