Volume 1

A text-book of surgery / by Hermann Tillmanns ; translated from the 3rd [and 4th] German edition by John Rogers and Benjamin T. Tilton.

  • Tillmanns, Hermann, 1844-1927. Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chirurgie. English
Date:
1895-1898
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Credit: A text-book of surgery / by Hermann Tillmanns ; translated from the 3rd [and 4th] German edition by John Rogers and Benjamin T. Tilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    §6.] Fio. 4.—Author's transportable operating table for private and military practice. attached. I have also devised a transportable table v^'ith folding legs for private practice and for army use (Figs. 4, 5, 6), which is made of wrought iron, weighs only twenty-five kilo- grammes, and is inex- pensive. Trendelenburg has constructed a table which allows the pa- tient to be brought into various positions. For protracted operations —laparotomies, for in- stance—it is advanta- geous to use operating tables which can be kept warm, such as me- tallic tables (Socin) filled with hot water. In this way the patient is kept from losing too much body tem- perature. Preparation of the Patient.—The prelimi- naries for an operation begin with the prepa- ration of the patient. In operations of any magnitude the whole body should be first thoroughly cleansed by means of a warm bath, after which the part of the body to be oper- ated on is scrubbed with Fig. 5—Method of folding up the table. Fig. 6.—The transportable operating table: a, seen from be- low ; 6, the side; c, the end. soft soap, shaved, rubbed off with ether to remove the fat on the skin, and washed with a three-to five- per-cent. solution of carbolic acid, or an aqueous solution of bi- chloride of mercury of a strength of 1 to 1,000-1 to 5,000. The scrubbing and disinfecting of the hands and feet especially must be thoroughly and carefully carried out. Instead of brushes which