Volume 1

The first lines of the practice of surgery designed as an introduction to students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / By Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1819-1820
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    CHAP. XII. _ WOUNDS. Definition of a wound, 125. Richerand’s objections to the common definition criticised, 126. Division of wounds into different kinds, 127. Of simple and complicated wounds, 128. Symptomatic fever arising from wounds, 129. Circumstances, on which the degree of danger from wounds depends, 7b. Incised wounds, 130. General vascularity of every part; universal presence of nervous filaments at every point of the skin; causes of the separation of the edges of wounds, 131. Prognosis of wounds, 132. 2 CHAP. XIII. HEMORRHAGE. ‘4 Arteries organised like other soft parts, and suscevtible of the same kind of morbid changes, 133. Manner in which the bleeding from a divided artery spontaneously stops, 134. Retraction and contraction of the vessel; formation of the external and internal coagula, i+. Inflammation of the end of the vessel, and effusion of coagulating lymph, 135. Process by which a punctured artery is spontaneously closed, 76. Tourniquet, 136. Of the ligature, 138. Of its dividing the inner coats of an artery, 2. Question concerning the utility of this effect, i. Some of the objections made by Scarpa and Crampton, examined, 144. Causes of ligatures be- coming loose at too early a period, 148. Nothing but the artery should be included in a ligature, if possible, 7. Method of taking up and tying ar- teries, 149. Plan of cutting off both ends of the ligature close to the knot, on the vessel, 150. Of the momentary and temporary application of a ligature, 151. compression, 152. Wounded arteries healed by it, always obliterated, 2. Manner of applying graduated compresses to a wounded artery, 153. Agaric, 154. Sponge, ib. Actual cautery, 155. Styptics, 74. Of cutting certain arteries completely through, in order to stop bleeding from them, 156. Frequency of bleedings from wounds, on the accession of symptomatic fever, i. wit CHAP. XIV. OF THE EXTRACTION OF FOREIGN BODIES FROM WOUNDS, UNION BY HE FIRST INTENTION, &c. ' Bad effects of leaving extraneous bodies in wounds, 157. Their removal the very next indication to that of stopping hemorrhage, 158. Whether blood is to be considered as an extraneous substance in a wound, 2. Union by the first intention, 159. Its recommendations, 7%. Was taken advantage of by the ancients only in repairing deformities and mutilations, ib. Facts establishing the possibility of reuniting parts, which have been entirely detached from the rest of the body, 160. Rarity of the thing; the connection of a few fibres makes a great difference, 161. Means for promoting the union of wounds, 162. Position of the part, 7b. Band- ages, ib, Adhesive plaster, 163. Sutures, 164. Their employment should be subject to great restrictions, 166. Observations on the dressing of wounds, 167. a CHAP. XV. PROCESS BY WHICH THE WOUND IS UNITED. Nature of the first stage of union, 170. Effusion of coagulating lymph; opinions entertained, as to whether it happens by simple exudation from the mouths of the cut vessels, or by a process similar to secretion, 171. Form- ation of new vessels ; vascular intercourse established between the opposite