Chapter V: Miscellaneous

The Hair suture.—The eye douche, drops for the eye.—Syringing
the ears.—Epistaxis; Ice-cold injection; Plugging
the nares; Belloc’s sound.—Drawing teeth; varieties
of forceps; extracting incisors and canines, bicuspids,
upper molars, lower molars, wisdom molars, roots; the
elevator.—Stopping bleeding after extraction.—Sore nipples;
nipple shields.—Plugging the vagina; Kite’s tail
plug for vagina.—Injecting the urethra. Catheters,
silver; different kinds of flexible catheters and bougies;
conformation of the urethra.—Passing catheters and
bougies; difficulties in doing so; passing the female
catheter.—Washing out the bladder.—Tying in catheters.—Position
for lithotomy.—Bed-sores, applications to
prevent the formation of bed-sores; the floating bed; the
water-cushion.—The stomach-pump, when used to empty
the stomach or to inject food.—Transfusion of blood;
precautions; mode of using the apparatus.—Tourniquets;
the Ring; Petit’s; Signoroni’s; Carte’s; Lister’s; the
make-shift.—Mercurial fumigation; general; local.—Hot
air baths.—Vapour baths.—Sick carriage.—Cupping.—Junod’s
boot.—Leeches.—Stopping leech bites.—Tents.—Setons.—Drainage
tubes.—Issues.—Trusses, requirements
of, inguinal, femoral, umbilical, Salmon and Ody’s.—Cauteries,
iron; gas; galvanic. Caustics.—Vesicants,
mustard, cantharides, iodine.—Corrigan’s hammer.—Poultices
and fomentations.—Lister’s mode of dressing
with carbolic acid.—Irrigation; Esmarch’s irrigator.—Administration
of chloroform, precautions; dangers;
methods; Clover’s inhaler.—Artificial respiration.—Local
anæsthesia.—Ether spray, pulverised fluids.—Chloroform
vapour to the uterus.—Subcutaneous injection.—Collodion.
—Vaccination 116-192

LIST OF APPLIANCES FOR THE OPERATING ROOM AND THE SICK
ROOM.—LIST OF SEDATIVES AND RESTORATIVES.—FOR
THE ARREST OF HÆMORRHAGE 195-197

LIST OF INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN OPERATIONS—

ON THE HEAD AND NECK.

Trephining the skull.—Operations on the eye.—Hare-lip.—Resection
of the jaw.—Excision of the tongue.—Cleft
palate.—Excision of tonsils.—Laryngotomy.—Tracheotomy 198-202

ON THE TRUNK.

Removal of breast or tumours.—Nævus.—Tapping the pleura.—Tapping
the belly.—Colotomy.—Ovariotomy.—Cæsarian
section.—Strangulated hernia.—Radical cure of
hernia.—Hæmorrhoids.—Fistula in ano.—Cleft perinæum.—Extirpation
of the cervix uteri.—Amputation of
the penis.—Circumcision.—Excision of testis.—Tapping
a hydrocele.—Vesico-vaginal fistula.—Retention of urine.—External
urethrotomy.—Lithotomy.—Lithotrity.—For
removing foreign bodies from the urethra and bladder 203-210

ON THE LIMBS.

Ligature of the larger arteries.—Resections: of the head of the
humerus, the elbow, the hip, the knee.—Removal of
necrosed bone.—Amputations: at the shoulder-joint;
arm; fore-arm and wrist; metacarpus; hip; thigh
and leg; Syme and Chopart’s operation; metatarsus and
toes 211-215

THE

ESSENTIALS OF BANDAGING,

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