A treatise on surgery : its principles and practice / by T. Holmes.

  • Timothy Holmes
Date:
1888
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Credit: A treatise on surgery : its principles and practice / by T. Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INFLAMMATION AND THE PROCESS OF UNION IN SOFT PARTS- TRAUMATIC FEVER DRESSING OP WOUNDS. PAGE Congestion: active and passive . 1 Inflammation ..... 3 Definition of Inflammation . 3 Pathology of Inflammation . 4 Causes of Inflammation . . 9 Exciting Causes ... 9 Predisposing Causes . . 11 Symptoms of Inflammation . 11 Inflammatory Fever . . 13 Treatment of Inflammation . 15 Local Treatment . . .15 Constitutional Treatment . 18 Chronic Inflammation . . .18 Eesults of Inflammation . . 20 Woimds and Contusions . . .21 Blood-tumour: Organisation of Clot 22 Kinds of Wound . . . .23 Processes of Union: 1. Immediate Union . . 24 2. Primary Union, or Union by First Intention . . 24 Processes of Union—continued. 3. Union mider a Scab . 25 4. Union by Suppuration, or by Second Intention. . 26 Granulation . . .26 Cicatrisation . . .26 5. Union by Secondary Ad- hesion, or by Third Inten- tion 27 Cicatrices 27 Tramnatic Fever . . . .27 Primary Traumatic Fever . 28 Secondary Traumatic Fever . 28 Treatment of Wounds . . .29 Arrest of Haemorrhage . . 31 Cleansing of Woimd . .31 Adaptation of Edges . . 31 Sutures . . . . .32 Drainage 32 Mechanical Eest . . .33 Prevention of Putrefaction . 33 Methods of Dressing Wounds. . 36 CHAPTER II. THE COMPLICATIONS OF WOUNDS AND INJURIES. Abscess 38 Kinds of Pus and of Abscess; Progress of Abscess . . 38 Diagnosis—Fluctuation . . 39 Treatment of Abscess . . 40 Residual Abscess . . .41 Sinus and Fistula . . . .41 Ulceration 42 Skin Grafting . . . .44 Sponge Grafting . . .45 Saprsemia 46 Septicaemia 47 Pysemia 49 Symptoms of Pyaemia . . 50 Causes 51 Treatment . . . .51 Pyaemia—continued. Chronic Pyaemia . . .51 Hectic Fever 52 Visceral Disease produced by long- continued Suppuration . . 53 Erysipelas and Erythema . . 54 Various Forms of Erythema . 54 Cutaneous or Simple Ery- sipelas 55 Phlegmonous or Cellulo-cuta- neous Erysipelas . . .57 Causes of Erysipelas . . 57 Diagnosis . . . .58 Treatment . . . .58 Local Treatment of Diffuse In- flammation . . . .60
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