A manual of minor surgery and bandaging : for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners / by Christopher Heath.

  • 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 / by Christopher Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    consequent congpstion, this rule cannot be implicitly obeyed, and, provided there is no arterial hivniorrhag-e, the trachea may be safely opened after douching wfth hot antiseptic solution. What little blood enters the windpipe is immediately coughed out again and does no harm, and it would take much more blood than is ordinarily shed to choke the lungs, as has been suggested. The patient, being often moribund before the operation is begun, may apparently die during its performance; but the tube having been inserted recourse should be had to the various methods of artificial respiration, and even in the most desperate ( cases the surgeon's efforts may be crowned with success. Tn cases of diphtheria a quantity of false Fto. 3.3. I membrane may be found semi-detached in the trachea .anc can be extracted with a pair of forceps or a feather with the best effect; but no surgeon is justified m imperilling his life by sucking out the windpipe in contagious cases Mr. R. W. Parker's trache^ aspi- rator (hg .33) obviates this danger to the operator. It consists of a small glass or celluloid cylinder, to one end of which a soft catheter is fixed, and to the other a tube with a mouthpiece. The cylinder is : oosely packed with some Ltiseptic w^^ whU effectua ly acts as a filter to prevent p;isonous M.atenal reaching the operator's mouth. On an emergency an ordinary catheter might be employed] I