A text-book of minor surgery.

  • Foote, Edward Milton, 1866-
Date:
1914
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A text-book of minor surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    operations, say for cancer of the tongue or tonsil, hypodermic anesthesia offers advantages. It wil] sometimes give the surgeon a patient whose mouth is free from mucus, who Joes not vomit, whose sensibility is so reduced thai he requires little or no addi- tional anesthetic, who can open his mouth or turn his head at com- mand, and who after the operation is free from shock.