A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1862
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Credit: A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    sake of easy reference, and the dresser should sign his name at the end. In long cases which are carried on ■to a page at a little distance, double references should ibe given—' continued at p. —and ' continued from J). -.' A case-book should be provided with a double index : in one, the nauies should be in the first column, in alpliabotical order, for reference while the patient is in the house; but the second index sho\ild consist of several parallel columns, in which the following should be entered:—1. Disease (referred to each organ—thus. Urethra, stricture of; Breast, scirrhus of, &c.). 2. Name. 3. Age. 4. Date of admission. 5. Date of <lischarge or death. G. Operation. 7. llesult. The number of the page being placed before or after the other particulars, as most convenient. TABLE FOE EEPOETING A SUEGICAL CASE. 1. Name. 2. Age and Condition, and Occupation. 5. Address. 4. Date of Admission (day of month and year), o. Ward and Bed. 6. Surgeon. 7. Injury or Disease. 8. History of Case from Patient. [9. Condition on admission.] 10. Patient's previous History. 11. Description of Case. 12. Diagnosis and Eemarks of Surgeon. 13. Treatment. 14. Progress. [15. Operation.] 16. Ecsult,