A system of operative surgery: based upon the practice of surgeons in the United States, with a bibliographical index and historical record of many of their operations during a period of two hundred and thirty-four years (Volume 2).

  • Smith, Henry H. (Henry Hollingsworth), 1815-1890
Date:
1856
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Credit: A system of operative surgery: based upon the practice of surgeons in the United States, with a bibliographical index and historical record of many of their operations during a period of two hundred and thirty-four years (Volume 2). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OPERATIVE SURGERY. PART III. OPERATIONS OX THE FACE AND NECK—Continued. CHAPTER X. OPERATIONS UPON THE CHEST. SECTION I. SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE CHEST. The extent of the chest as a surgical region is usually regarded by anatomists as limited, above, by a circular boundary formed by the upper extremity of the sternum, the first rib and first dorsal vertebra, or, in other words, by the bony constituents of the thorax; and below, by the curved line formed in the arrangement of the cartilages of the ribs, the chest being at this point completely sepa- rated from the abdomen by the diaphragm. There is, however, a portion of the body of great importance to the surgeon, which is not included in these limits, and which is yet not included in those assigned to the upper extremities, to wit, the structures about the clavicle; and it will, therefore, answer better for the purposes of description, at present, to define the chest as that portion of the body intermediate to the neck and abdomen, the upper portion being intimately connected with the upper extremi- ties, but the lower separated entirely from the abdomen by the diaphragm. As most of the constituents of this section of the body are unimportant, consisting merely of skin and muscle, they do not present any points requiring either a precise regional description, or a minute account of their connections with subjacent parts. The VOL. II.—2
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