A textbook on surgery, general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth.

  • John Allan Wyeth
Date:
1890
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Credit: A textbook on surgery, general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    solutions, irrigators, etc. An adjustable stool (Fig. 99) for the surgeon should be among the accessories. An operating-table should be made of strong material, solidly put together, 6i feet long, 3-i inches high, and 22 in width, padded %vith cotton, wool, hair, or felt, to the thickness of about one inch, and covered with some good water-proof material. In mod- ern ]3ractice, with the free use of irrigating solutions, it is necessary to arrange the operating-table so that all fluids will be conducted into a vessel without wetting the patient beyond the field of operation. Dr. Fig. 100.—Ladinski's operating-taWe. Ladiaski's table (Fig. 100) fully answers these requirements. The surface of this excellent table is divided into a central padded ridge ten inches in width, and two lateral portions, each about seven inches wide, which slope sharply toward the two deep grooves or troughs, extending the entire length of the to]3. These grooves should be wide enough to per- mit of thorough cleansing. All the fluids used in irrigation flow fi'om the field of operation into the troughs, and run oflE on the lower end through the tin gutter into a vessel beneath. In an emergency, a con- venient covering for a table may be made as follows: Ai'ound two poles of a length equal to that of the table, and an inch or two in diame- ter, roU cotton-batting, or pieces of blanket, until the whole is about three inches iu diameter. Two ordinary blankets rolled tightly will suffice. At intervals of a foot connect these side-bars by wisps of band- age-cloth long enough to hold the bars parallel with each other, and with the long edges of the table on which they rest. This skeleton, or