Cases of the excision of carious joints / By H. Park ... and P.F. Moreau ... With observations by James Jeffray.

  • Henry Park
Date:
1806
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Credit: Cases of the excision of carious joints / By H. Park ... and P.F. Moreau ... With observations by James Jeffray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fionally lent to furgeons, by ‘whom it has bees: ufed in operations; but there is no purpofe to which it is fo well fitted, as that for which it was originally intended, viz. the Excifion of Bones from Carious Joints: of courfe, when- ever an opportunity offered here, for fhewing the manner in which Mr Parx’s operation is dire€ted to be performed, this faw, and the manner of ufing it, which is extremely fimple, has been annually exhibited. Having browght the bone that is to be cut fairly into view, by incifion, the flefh is to be feparated from it all around, and by the fin- ger if poflible. ‘Theneedle, which, it is fcarce- ly neceffary to fay, fhould be blunt at the point as well as om the edges, at the fame time that it fhould be elaitic, and adapted, in curvature. and fize, to the depth of the wound and the di- ameter of the bone, fhould then be taken in the right hand; and, its point being brought to touch the furface of the bone on the right fide, fhould be paffed behind, and in contact with the bone, till, fweeping a half circle, it be fele or feen in contact with the bone at the other
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