Lectures on principles of surgerySouthern Medical Publishing Company, 1908 - 480 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
abdomen abscess acid acute anesthesia anesthetic antiseptic arterial aseptic bacillus bacteria become bichloride blood cells blood vessels body bone cancer carcinoma catgut cause cavity chancre chancroid chloroform chronic circulation condition connective tissue consists corpuscles cyst danger death develop diagnosis disease disinfected doses drainage dressing drug embryonal cells epithelial erysipelas fever fluid followed formation formative cells frequently gangrene gauze germs glands granulation growth healing heat hemorrhage hyperemia incision infection inflammation inflammatory injury inoculation iodoform irritation kidneys lesions leucocytes leucocytosis limb lymph nodes lymphatic malignant membrane method microbic mucous mucous membrane muscles nerve normal occurs opening operation organisms osteomyelitis pain PATHOLOGY patient peritonitis poison practically prevent primary produce prognosis pyemia pyogenic removed resistance result sarcoma secondary sepsis septic serum shock skin solution sometimes stage sterile structures suppuration surface surgeon surgical sutures swelling symptoms syphilis temperature tetanus tion toxins treatment tube tuberculosis tuberculous tumors ulcer usually wall wound
Popular passages
Page 395 - ... of the skull, perhaps not well made out, the result of which is to spread the points of the fangs apart in closure of the mouth, so that they clear the sides of the under jaw, instead of impinging upon it. "The complicated mechanism of the act of striking may be thus described: — The snake prepares for action by throwing itself into a number of superimposed coils, upon the mass of which the neck and a few inches more lie loosely curved, the head elevated, the tail projecting and rapidly vibrating.
Page 455 - ... their years, are very bad. They that are fat, florid, and plethoric, firm-skinned, and with good muscular power, clear-headed, and willing to work like younger men, are not, indeed, good subjects for operations, yet they are scarcely bad. The old people that are thin and dry and tough, clear-voiced and bright-eyed, with good stomachs and strong wills, muscular and active, are not bad ; they bear all but the largest operations very well.
Page 438 - Take of opium, mandragora bark, and henbane root equal parts, pound them together, and mix with water. When you want to sew or cut a man dip a rag in this and put it to his forehead and nostrils. He will soon sleep so deeply that you may do what you will. To wake him up, dip the rag in strong vinegar. The same is excellent in brain fever, when the patient cannot sleep, for if he do not sleep he will die.
Page 196 - This depends on the degree of the injury, the severity of the symptoms, the general condition of the patient, and the presence or absence of complications like septic infection.
Page 113 - ... times the normal standard. In the conflict, cells die and often are eaten by their companions ; frequently the slaughter is so great that the tissue becomes burdened by the dead bodies of the soldiers in the form of pus, the activity of the cell being testified by the fact that its protoplasm often contains bacilli, etc., in various stages of destruction.
Page 193 - He affected at first to treat the whole thing as a joke but was solemnly assured by the students that they meant it in real earnest. He was told to prepare for immediate death. The trembling janitor looked all around in the vain hope of seeing some indication that nothing was really meant, but stern looks met him everywhere. He was blindfolded and made to kneel before the block...
Page 438 - Even as a Surgeon, minding off-to-cut 1030 Some-cureless Limb ; before in ure he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a sense-less slumber, And grief-less then (guided by Use and Art) To save the whole, sawes off th...
Page 76 - Sanderson defines inflammation as " the succession of changes which occur in a living tissue when it is injured, provided that the injury is not of such a degree as at once to destroy its structure and vitality.
Page 192 - Desault that he one day lost a patient, about to be lithotomized, from sheer fright. The man, who was very cowardly, fainted and died under the impression that the operation was progressing, when this distinguished surgeon was, in fact, only tracing with his nail the line of the intended incision on the perineum.
Page 453 - You should examine him with at least as much care as you would for a life insurance. It is surely at least as important that a man should not die or suffer serious damage after an operation, as that his life should be safely insured for a few hundred pounds.