Bier's hyperemic treatment in surgery, medicine, and the specialties : a manual of its practical application / by Willy Meyer and Victor Schmieden.

  • Meyer, Willy, 1858-1932
Date:
1909
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Credit: Bier's hyperemic treatment in surgery, medicine, and the specialties : a manual of its practical application / by Willy Meyer and Victor Schmieden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    putting elastic cuff on suction glass for the treatment of mastitis, see Fig. 24.) Nurses keep other children around and let little patient herself produce the vacuum with syringe, of course, carefully watching the degiee. Six months in hospital; then all sinuses closed; walks without pain. Advised to continue hyperemia with bandage during night. General hygienic regime continued. Tuberculosis of the Spine, Ilio-sacral Joint and Os JuberciRosi3 of Sacrum.—Tuberculosis of the spine can also be treated by Column (Pott’s artificial hyperemia. The earlier it is applied, the more gpjne^ promising the result. Of course, only suction glasses can be made use of. Experiments and experience have shown that the hyperemic depth-effect of these glasses amounts to several inches. We can thus understand how the diseased body of the vertebrae may be placed under artificial hyper- emia in this manner. The selection of the proper size of glass is of greatest importance. The glass should be large and cover a num- ber of vertebra above and below the affected region. According to location, the brim of the glass must be straight or U-shaped. In cases in which it does not readily adhere one may facilitate air-tight suction by pushing the neighboring skin and muscles toward the apparatus, the rim of which should always be anointed with a mixture of lanolin and vaselin, equal parts, or by snugly covering the rim with a strip of Billroth-battist.* In these cases the hyperemic treatment is, naturally, but a part of the regular treatment, but it is a very essential part. Its use forbids an immovable plaster jacket in the beginning; if such be deemed necessary later on, it will have to have a large window cut out. * By slipping a stiff rubber cuff on to glass cups of round or oval shape, even spines, the adjacent muscles of which are atrophied and do not give a proper hold for the ordinary cup, can be effectively subjected to suction treatment. 10
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