Traumatic infection : Hunterian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Charles Barrett Lockwood.

Date:
1896
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    Methods of Investigation. My plan has been to choose cases of traumatic infection of which the clinical history and morbid anatomy were known and work out their morbid histology. Nearly all the cases were under my ob- servation when surgical registrar in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and of many of them I conducted the fost mortem examination. This order has not always been strictly adhered to, but, as an extra control, the clinical history and morbid anatomy were often purposely left unascertained until the morbid histology and bacteri- ology had been investigated. Although it may be rather tedious and prolix, I propose to illustrate each branch of my subject with these cases, giving the clinical history, morbid anatomy, morbid histology, and, as far as possible, the bacteriology of each. I venture to surmise that it must be advantageous to an audience of surgeons to be able to consider all of these together and in continuity. A short commentary follows each case, and in this some of the more recent researches bearing upon it are mentioned. I need not speak about the clinical and anatomical methods. For histological purposes the tissues were obtained as fresh as possible and hardened in alcohol. The sections were stained in various ways. Sometimes good results were
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