Antiseptic surgery : its principles, practice, history and results / by W. Watson Cheyne.

  • Watson Cheyne
Date:
1882
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Credit: Antiseptic surgery : its principles, practice, history and results / by W. Watson Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATMENT OF N/EVI, ETC. to surgical pathology and treatment are reversed, when means are taken to render the dust of the atmosphere inert before it reaches a wound. In treating nt-evi great benefit is obtained from the in- jection of pure carbolic acid. The nsevus is first thoroughly cut off from the circulation by ligatures tightly applied around its base, and then half minims of pure carbolic acid are in- jected into various parts of the tumom'. Ten minutes or so having been allowed to pass, in order to ensure complete and firm coagulation, the ligatures are divided and removed, and the punctures are touched with collodion. The surface being left completely dry, any slough which forms becomes absorbed or separates as a crust after some time, the part beneath being found to be a scar. The same method answers excellently in the treatment of varicose veins. A tourniquet having been firmly applied around the upper part of the limb in order to arrest the circulation, the vein is punctured at various parts, and half minims of car- bolic acid are introduced into it. The tourniquet is kept on for ten minutes after the injection is completed. Coagulation and a slight degree of inflammation are thus induced, but this, so far as I have seen, never goes to any dangerous extent, and is followed by at least temporary cm^e. I have not known any case return with reformation of varicose veins. A dissection or post-mortem wound does not give rise to bad results if the wound be instantly purified with 1-20 car- bolic lotion.
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