The Medical News Volume 69. Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 712 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231089132
Download Link: The Medical News Volume 69
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...as his experience has been somewhat unsatisfactory. He believed the less foreign matter one gets in the wound in uniting the bowel to the stomach, the better the result. Dr. A. J. Ochsner, in some twenty cases, had used irrigation of the stomach with decided satisfaction. In this way the patient will sometimes become well enough nourished to stand an operation when it is desirable. Thos. H. Manlev, M.D., of New York, read a paper on CONDITIONS WHICH MAY SIMULATE ORGANIC OBSTRUCTION OF THE RECTUM. Norval H. Pierce, M.D., of Chicago, read a paper on SUBMUCOUS LINEAR CAUTERIZATION; ANEW METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF HYPERTROPHIES OF THE CONCH/E. A small incision is made in the hypertrophied membrane; then, with a blunt, flat probe the mucous membrane is carefully separated from the erectile tissue underneath. A sound, the end of which is cup-shaped, and upon which has been fused a few crystals of chromic acid, is inserted in the incision and the track already made by the probe is thus cauterized. There is no hemorrhage and less pain than by any other method. The functional activity of the mucous membrane is not in the least impaired. Patients will submit to this operation more willingly than to the burning of the cautery. Dr. Coulter suggested the possibility of the chromic acid being left within the operative field, in which case an undesirable slough would necessarily follow. The practice of many rhinologists in using a broad, flat electrode, and destroying a large amount of the mucous membrane, and in not going down to the bone, is to be deplored, as irrational, unscientific, and impracticable. Dr. H. W. Loeb, St. Louis, had seen blindness result from cauterization of the inferior turbinates, and wished to know if there was danger in the use of the chromic acid. ...
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