Railway Surgery; a Practical Work on the Special Department of Railway Surgery: For Railway Surgeons and Practitioners in the General Practice of SurgeryChambers, 1890 - 315 pages |
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Page 63 - nature never accomplishes the immediate union of a fracture save by the formation of two successive deposits of callus ;" one of which is derived from the periosteum, the adjacent tissues, and from the medulla ; while the other, derived, perhaps, from the broken extremities of the bone itself, is found at a later period directly interposed between these surfaces. The material or callus derived from the tissues outside of the bone, and which Galen compared to a ferrule, but which Mr. Paget calls...
Page 230 - ... corresponding to those of the spectrum, and each in all its shades from the darkest to the lightest. Such selections may be found in trade, and are easily procured when and where desired. It can be used at once, and without any preparation for the examination, -just as delivered from the factory. A skein of Berlin worsted is equally colored, not only on one or two sides, but on all, and is easily detected in a large pile, even though there be but one thread of it. Berlin worsted is not too strongly...
Page 37 - ... possible to repeat the experiment, insensibility could not have been produced and death avoided. This cannot be said of chloroform. 5th. In view of all these facts, the use of ether in armies, to the extent which its bulk will permit, ought to be obligatory, at least in a moral point of view. 6th. The advantages of chloroform are exclusively those of convenience. Its dangers are not averted by its admixture with sulphuric ether in any proportions.
Page 231 - Berlin wool is then made, including red, orange, yellow, yellow-green, pure green, blue-green, blue, violet, purple, pink, brown, gray, several shades of each color, and at least five gradations of each tint, from the deepest to the lightest. Green and gray, several kinds each, of pink, blue, and violet, and the pale gray shades of brown, yellow, red, and pink, must especially be well represented.
Page 159 - In performing the operation, the foot being held at a right angle to the leg, the point of a common straight bistoury should be introduced immediately below the fibula, at the centre of its malleolar projection, and then carried across the integuments of the sole in a straight line to the same level on the opposite side. The operator having next placed the fingers of his left hand upon the heel, and inserted the point of his thumb...
Page 274 - Company for compensation on account of an injury alleged to have been sustained from an accident on their line. In this case Sir William Fergusson, Mr. Erichsen and Dr. Russel Reynolds declared that there was organic disease in the spine which in all probability would soon prove fatal; while, on the other hand, Mr. Borlese Childs, Mr. Poerok, of St. George's Hospital; Mr. Cook, of Guy's Hospital; Dr. Risdon Bennett, of St. Thomas Hospital; Dr.
Page 159 - ... the hand and removed by the saw. After the vessels have been tied, and before the edges of the wound are stitched together, an opening should be made through the posterior part of the flap, where it is thinnest, to afford a dependent drain for the matter, as there must always be too much blood retained in the cavity to permit of union by the first intention.
Page 232 - As it is a well-known fact, both from theoretical and practical standpoints, that many "Color-Blinds," especially those of medium grades, have the power of differentiation, even by daylight, of the most difficult colors, when placed at the ordinary one-metre distance of wool selection employed in the detection and determination of "Color-Blindness...
Page 255 - ... ever does exist; and I have no hesitation in saying that in at least nineteen-twentieths of all the railway or other accidents that are referred to surgeons of experience for arbitration or opinion, there is no serious difference as to the real »nature of the injury sustained, or as to its probable result on. the patient, either locally or constitutionally, immediately or remotely. But in a certain small percentage of cases, in which, as has already been said, the relation between alleged cause...
Page 275 - ... without any sign of local injury, I concluded that if he felt any uneasiness it must be more mental than bodily. Having expressed my opinion to this effect, I was rather surprised by being asked to recommend a law agent, and, it is hardly necessary to say, declined to do so. On the same day, April...