A dictionary of practical surgery: comprehending all the most interesting improvements up to the present period: also an account of the instruments, remedies, and applications employed in surgery; the etymology and signification of the principal terms; a copious bibliotheca chirurgica; and a variety of original facts and observations / [Samuel Cooper].

  • Samuel Cooper
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1818
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Credit: A dictionary of practical surgery: comprehending all the most interesting improvements up to the present period: also an account of the instruments, remedies, and applications employed in surgery; the etymology and signification of the principal terms; a copious bibliotheca chirurgica; and a variety of original facts and observations / [Samuel Cooper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J. N. Sender's AnWeisung die Beinbriiche, vorzuglich die complicirten und den SehenJcelbenhalsbruch zu heilcn. ]812. Delpcck, Precis Elementaire des Maladies Chir. T. 1, Paris, 1816. Fungus Hnematodes. Cases of Fungus Hcematodes, with Obs. by &. Langstaff, and an appendix, containing two cases of analogous affections, by W. Lawrence, in Med. and Chir. Trans. Vol. 8, p. 272, tyc. Gun-shot Wounds. J. B. paroisse in Opuscules de Chirurgie, Paris, 18CXT Assaliniy Manuale di Chirurgia, Milano, 1812. Hennens Obs. on Military Surgery, and the Arrangement and Police of Hos- pitals. N. B. in the press. Head, Injuries of. J.B. Paroisse in Opuscules de Chirurgie; Paris, 1806. Hemorrhage. R.Blagden, Case of Fatal Hemorrhage from the extraction of a tooth. The patient 27 years of age. He had had a tooth extracted when a boy, in consequence of which operation, the bleeding continued for twenty-one days, from the socket, before it ceased. A very slight cut on the head was also followed by an alarming bleeding, which could not be stopped by pressure, styptics, or the ligature, so that it became necessary to apply the kali purum, which succeeded. On having another carious tooth taken out, a profuse bleeding followed, which resisted the effect of styptics, caustic, and every riieans adopted to stop up the socket. The actual cautery was tried in vain. The dangerous condition of the patient seemed to leave no other resource, but that of tying the carotid artery, which was done by Mr. Brod ie. But even this proceeding failed to suppress the hemorrhage, which proved fatal. Vid. Medical and Chir. Trans. Vol. S.p. 224, London, 1817. John Cross, A Case of Amputation, with some Experiments and Obs. on the securing of Arteries with minute silk ligatures. The author relates several experiments for the purpose of ascertaining the utility of tying arteries with such ligatures, and cutting the two ends off close to the knot. They were performed on the carotids of dogs and asses. The conclusions are un- favourable to the practice. After one case of amputation, where the method was tried, the stump healed slowly, and for several months small abscesses repeatedly formed. See London Medical Repository, Vol. J,p. 353. Hernia. RudtorffeVs Abhandlung iiber die einfachste und sicherste opera- tions Methode eingesperrter Leisten; und Schenkelbriiche, SfC. In this work, the erroneous plan of cutting the ring inwards is inculcated, both in the external and internal inguinal rupture. The author, however, seems to have performed many operations in this manner, without any accident from hemorrhage ; a piece of good fortune, which Professor Langenbeck ascribes to the circumstance of the knife having always been applied, as Rudtorffer directs, to the middle of the inner pillar of the ring, and to the cut having been very limited. Langenbeck is of opinion, that, if the knife had been applied a little lower, and the incision carried to any extent, the epigastric artery, in ordinary cases, would not have escaped injury. Many of Langenbeck’s criticisms on this book are very just and judicious. Guincourty in Journal de Medecine, 8$c. par Curvisart, T. id. A swelling of the testicle, attended with all the symptoms of a strangulated hernia. A case, somewhat analogous, fell under my own observation, and is re- corded in the article Hernia Humoralis. De/pcch, Precis Elementaire des Maladies Chir. T. 2, Paris, I8l6.