Report on clinical surgery for winter session 1874-75 / by George Buchanan.

  • George Buchanan
Date:
1875
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Credit: Report on clinical surgery for winter session 1874-75 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    evidently due to the irritation of the ulcer. Healthy granulations have sprung up over the surface of the excised portion of bone and cicatrisation is advancing rapidly. The out-patients applying for advice in the ward have been o7 in number. There have been the usual amputations of fingers; the only point to notice in these has been the rigid observance of the rule never to remove a particle of any finger in a working man when it could possibly be avoided. In some cases the torn fragments of skin have been simply brought together over the end of the bone, and useful joints have thus been saved to the patients, d he fust phalanx was invariably left, and even when part of the first phalanx was removed, the stump was left. The results have been quite satisfactory. i