Antiseptic excision of the knee-joint / by Charles Coppinger.

  • Coppinger, Charles.
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Antiseptic excision of the knee-joint / by Charles Coppinger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    complete recovery having been retarded chiefly by the occurrence of small cutaneous abscesses in the neighbourhood of the operation wound. The practice of suspending the leg after operation, so as to allow unavoidable movements of the limb as a whole, while injurious motion at the seat of the operation is prevented, is a most valuable one. It was first adopted, in connexion with Mr. P. H. Watson’s splint, by my late friend, Mr. Tyrrell, and on looking over my notes of over thirty excisions of the knee-joint, performed by mv colleagues and myself at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital since I became connected with that institution, I am forcibly reminded of how much we owe to his successful labours in rendering this great operation popular with Dublin surgeons.
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