CHAPTER I.
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Surgical dressings—Ligatures and sutures—Preparation of material—Catgut, silk, silk-worm gut, silver wire—Antiseptic solutions—Corrosive sublimate, creoline, carbolic acid, iodo- form, alcohol, chloride-of-zinc—Irrigators, sponges—Drains: rubber, bone, catgut, and horse-hair—Protective—Carbolized, sublimated, and iodoformized gauze—Borated and absorbent cotton—Peat—Sawdust—Jute—Wood-wol. . . . . 1
CHAPTER II.
Bandaging—Materials and methods of preparing—Application of the various methods—Simple spiral, reverse spiral, figure-of-8 turn, figure-of-8 reverse—Special bandages—Hand and fingers—Fore-arm, arm, and shoulder—Toes, foot, leg, and thigh—Spica—Abdomen and thorax—Head and face—Knotted bandage—Handkerchief bandages. . . .
CHAPTER III. Anesthesia—Local anesthesia—Cocaine—Ether-spray—General anssthesia—Administration
of ether by inbalation—By the rectum—Chloroform and chloroform narcosis... CHAPTER IV.
Surgical operations—Instruments—Operating - table—Furniture—Operating-gown—How to
hold the scalpel—Hamostasis—Tying the ligature—After-treatment of the case. CHAPTER V.
Inflammation—Venesection and blood-letting—Compression—Application of cold—Internal medication—Suppuration—Pus—Micrococci—Bacteria—Abscess—Treatment . .
CHAPTER VI.
Wounds—Process of repair—Cicatrization—The tourniquet—Closing wounds—The inter- rupted, continuous, mattress, quill, wire, and pin sutures—Transfusion—Intra-venous injection of a saline solution—Poisoned wounds—Snake-bites—Tarantula-poison—Wounds by bees, wasps, hornets, and centipedes—Hydrophobia—Glanders—Malignant pustule— Dissection wounds — Hiyaipelad— Dera — aye — Cellulitis — Tetanus—Shot- wounds . . . . . . . . . .
CHAPTER VII.
Burns and scalds—Skin- ret lng Bro ie-—Parmpsle—‘Caetmmale—“Uionrs “Gangrene Diy or senile gangrene—Hospital gangrene... : : .
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Amputations—Method of operating—Circular solid flap, with perpendicular slit—Oblique solid flaps by transfixion—The same by cutting from the surface inward—Skin-flaps, circular method—Modified circular—Oval—Double crescentic—Double rectangular—Mixed flaps— Open method—Special amputations — Fingers—Hand—Fore-arm—Elbow-joint—Arm— Shoulder—Toes—Through the metatarsus—Through the tarsus—Methods of Pirogoff, Chopart, Hey, Lisfranc, Le Fort, Lignerolles, and Hancock—Tibio-tarsal disarticulation— Method of Syme —Leg—Method of Btephen Bilt Koi of Thigh— Bip ott Method of Erskine Mason, etc... —- . . + 107