Professional letters from Europe, written during the summer of 1852 / by the Assistant Editor of the Nashville medical and surgical journals ; to the subscribers of the Nashville medical and surgical journal.

  • Eve, Paul F. (Paul Fitzsimmons), 1806-1877.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Professional letters from Europe, written during the summer of 1852 / by the Assistant Editor of the Nashville medical and surgical journals ; to the subscribers of the Nashville medical and surgical journal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and tacked by sutures made very fine, to the mucous surface of the surrounding parts. If comprehended, you perceive the cyst is thus completely destroyed, and the mucous membrane ofthesacbecomescontinuous with the buccal or the natural li- ning of the mouth. The opinion generally entertained that ranula depends up- on an obstruction in the duct of Wharton is erroneous. We know not the true cause producing it. In the case before us, upon raising the tongue and putting salt into the mouth, the saliva is seen to jet through this canal. M. Nelaton says thU may be seen in nearly every instance. Fistula lachrymalis.—He operated on a case, as follows; the knife was past through the fistula down into the nose, and re- placed by a long watch-spring to carry the seton. This came out in the fauces and was then brought out of the mouth by forceps. In withdrawing it, the seton thread was deposited in the lachrymal canal. The next step was to bring the lower end of the seton out of the anterior naris instead of the mouth. This was now effected by carrying the watch-spring, or Belloc's instrument through the nostril and into the phar- ynx, when, by attaching the end of the seton and again with- drawing the spring, the desired change is made. Why not bring the watch-spring directly and at once from the nose7 without interfering with the mouth? New sign of inversion of the Womb.—In the lecture of the morning, he took for his remarks, a case of diseased uterus just brought to the hospital, in whichhe alluded to the various displacements of this organ. I feel it but right, since I have been so exclusively selfish as, heretofore, to confine my com- munications to Surgery, to touch occasionally on other de- partments of practical medicine. M. Nelaton is to furnish the article on the Womb for Dr. Costello's British cyclopedia of Surgery. What he says, therefore, on this subject, may even claim the passing notice of our learned friend and col- league, Prof. Watson. To ascertain if the uterus be really inverted, let a finger be carried up the rectum as far as possi- ble while the other hand or fingers are deeply pressed above the pubis, so as to reach the tip of the one introduced through