Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war / by William MacCormac.

Date:
1880
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Credit: Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war / by William MacCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Fig. 1. Case of extreme genu valgum, before operation . . 11 J, 2. The same case, after operation 12 „ 3. Bullet-wound of head of tibia .39 „ 4. KUster's antiseptic gauze fabricator . . . . , 121 „ 5. Bottle for preserving catgut and silk .... 138 „ 6. Lister's catgut-holder 139 „ 7. Trough for preserving catgut %atures .... 139 „ 8. Esmarch's and Ohiene's method of filo-pressure . . . 140 „ 9. The leaden-plate suture 143 „ 10. Thiersch's bead suture 144 „ 11. Wills' suture buttons . 145 „ 12. Drainage-tube prepared for insertion . . . . . 146 „ 13. Sizes of drainage-tubiug . 147 „ 14. Lister's forceps for introducing drainage-tubes . . . 148 „ 15. Hand spray-producer 153 „ 16. Richardson's spray, with foot bellows 154 „ 17. Steam spray . 156 „ 18. Steam spray with spherical boiler 158 „ 19. Application of artery forceps in an amputation of thigh . 165 „ 20. damp artery forceps 166 „ 21. Mode of introduction of deep and superficial sutiu-es . 168 „ 22. Amputation stump ready for dressing 169 „ 23. Wound syringe 173 24. Antiseptic dressing for a wound in the groin 179 a