Aids to surgery / by George Brown.

  • Brown, George
Date:
1890
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Credit: Aids to surgery / by George Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recovery, tlae pad being worn for some time after the operation.* In strangulated hernia, attempts at re- duction shoukl be made as early as possible, by means of taxis, that is, by careful manipulation, the pressure being directed toAvards the aperture from whence the bowel emerged. If taxis fails at first, a full dose of opium may be given, the patient placed in a warm bath, and the taxis again applied; or, chloroform should be administered and taxis used without em- ploying force. A bladder of ice placed over the tumour for an hour or two sometimes assists the means employed for reduction. AVhen it is found that taxis has no effect, as regards reducing the size of the ti;mour, no time should be lost in performing herniotomy, ac- cording to the principles laid down in surgical text- books. In suitable cases, the radical cure of inguinal hernia may be effected by means of the operation suggested by Professor Wood, or by the injection of an irritating fiuid into the tissues about the neck of the sac. In femoral hernia the operation for radical cure is less successfid. LIA^.—HERPES PREPUTIALIS. Definition.—An affection characterised by the appearance of a crop of herpetic vesicles around the corona of the glans penis, or upon the external or internal surface of the prepuce. Symptoms.—Heat of the part and considerable irritation. The vesicles contain thin watery fluid and readily burst. Sometimes ulceration takes place, but, as a rule, if cleanliness be observed, the parts become dry and heal in a few days. Thu Author Laa ycuu this method practised with success,
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