Flesh And Bones Of Surgery PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the bone again into their place, and lays them among the flesh, opposite to each other, and sews up the wound! then adhesion takes place, the communion of vessels from bone to bone, and also the continuity of all the surrounding soft parts, is restored; then all the surrounding vessels are drawn into action, a mass of parts, active and in high circulation, is formed round the broken bone, the blood and humours are worked towards it, and the vessels of the bone itself being thus supported in their new action, the ossific process is renewed with great energy. This is the result of an experiment, or rather of an operation, which has been several times performed, and particularly by Mr. Park of Liverpool, and is a fine analogy for explaining the condition of a fractured callus; for in proportion as the organization is advanced, and the parts full of blood and in high excitement, the second fracture is more rapidly reunited than the first. [I have no objection to the illustration; but this is a questionable point of practice. My brother performed this operation on the humerus. The time for the union of bone having passed, and a false joint having been formed, he made an incision upon the extremities of the bones, turned them out, sawed off their ends, reduced them, and successfully treated the case as compound fracture. But this is a severe operation, and not without danger in the thigh, besides, that very often it does not succeed; the sup- purative process set up defeating the intention. It is, in these cases, proper to try the method by seton. A seton is passed through betwixt the ends of the bones, and it is permitted to remain weeks or months, until the false joint becomes stiff and painful; thenthe limb is carefully put up in splints and secured. Some experience has, howeve...