A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation ... / [G.J. Guthrie].

  • George James Guthrie
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1827
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Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation ... / [G.J. Guthrie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be removed as soon as possible, when used, 279. Ligatures to be cut long, or short, 281. Opinions of M. Delpech, Dr. Hennen, Mr. Haire, Dr. Fergusson, 282. Dr. Physick, Mr. Lawrence, 283. Field- ing, 284. Stump not always to be united by the first intention, 284. Particularly when the parts are unsound, 285. Diseased state of the stump, often the cause of death, 286. On inflammation of the great veins, 287. Case of Clarke, 289. Inflammation of the veins after amputation, first noticed in this work, 292. Opinions of Mr. Hun- ter, Mr. Travers, 292. Mr. Carmichael, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Wilson, 294. Case of Jane Strangemore, 296. Conclusions, 299. Dr. Davis’s opinions, 300. Author’s observations thereon, 300. He- morrhage in irritable and sloughing stumps, 302. _recautions to be observed in tying the artery, 302. Case of popliteal artery by Mr. Berry and Dr. Robb, 303. The artery to be tied below the clavicle and not above, 304. On hemorrhage from smal] vessels on the face of a stump, 304. On protrusion of the bone, 305. Use of stump caps, 307. Conclusion, and report on the state of the amputations at New Orleans, by Staff-surgeon Wasdeil, 308. On particular Operations. Amputation always to be performed when a limb is torn away, 309. Differences of opinion, 309. Of Amputation ai the Hip-Joint. Not noticed by modern authors, 31@. Once performed in London unsuccessfully by Mr. Henry Thomson, 311. Mr. Pott’s opinion against it, 312. Authorities but slender, 312. Of the Royal Academy of Surgery of France, 313. Messrs. Volher, Puthod, L’Alouette, Goursaud, and Moublet, 313. M. Barbet, 314. Case by M. La Croix, 314. Case by Dr. Kerr, 315. M. Larrey, his cases, 318. Of M. Baffos, 322. This operation either primary or secondary, 326. Nature of wounds requiring it, 327. Cases illustrative of, 327. Ex- tensive injury of soft parts does not render it necessary, 328. Case of Capt. Flack, 88th regiment, in illustration, 330. Unsuccessful. case of secondary operation at Ciudad Rodrigo, 331. Cases, 332. Dr. Emery’s case, 334. Mr. Brownrigg’s successful case, 342. Author’s successful case, 342. Unsuccessful cases by Drs. Cole, Blicke, and Orton, 351. Particular states demanding the operation, 352. Not to be done by every body, 352. Mr. John Bell’s opinion of the impossibility of suppressing the circulation in a large artery, shown to be erroneous, 352. Since abandoned, 354. Strong facts on this point at the York Hopital, 356. The surgeon must throw off
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