Lectures on anatomy, surgery, and pathology; including observations on the nature and treatment of local diseases. Delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital / John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1828
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    INDEX. Abdomen, strictures in the, 369 remarkable structure of the, 497 Abscess, chronic, 79 formation of, 80 cure of a large, on the thigh, ib. ———— extraordinary case of four quarts of matter taken from an, 32 Lumbar, ib. treatment of, 83 ——— dispersing a very large one on the fore part of the thigh of a lady, 84 rules for extracting the matter of and dressing, 86 in and of a part, distinction of, ib. necessity of rest after puncturing an, 88 error of allowing it to break, ib. bread and water poultice preferable to puncturing an, 89 distinction between erysipelas and irritative inflammation, ib. symptoms of irritative inflammation, 92 in the brain; case of a man who died from mere irritation on the * outer part of the head, 480 in the thigh, cure of, 137 Absorbent vessels and glands, 403 similarity in structure to veins, ib. — action of glands in modifying the contents of, ib. Morgagni’s mode of injecting the, 405 ——-—— diseased, in the groin, 406 irritation of the, 134 caused by the prick of a clean needle, and cut ofa i (ee ee ED eet knife, ib. Adhesion, union of wounds by, 143 union of an incision made in the thigh of a lady for a tumour, by, 144 of foreign bodies, Mr. Hunter’s experiments, 142 Alimentary canal [see Intestines] 356 contraction and malformation of the, 364 Ankle joint, accidents about the, 306 amputation discouraged in dislocation of the, ib. injuries to the, cause of retention of urine, 307 reduction of the dislocation of the foot inwards, 308 case of dislocation, for which amputation was thought necessary by the student, cured by bathing and the splints, 309 case of dislocation wrongly set, restored by straps and plas- ters, 310 carrying weights the cause of the feet turning out and the knees inwards, 311 ooo