Surgery of the thorax and its viscera, symptoms, diagnosis1918 - 698 pages |
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abscess Acad Anat anesthesia anesthetic aneurism aorta Arch artery behandlung Beitr Beitrag Berl Berlin biol blood Brit bronchoscopy bronchotomy bronchus Brux Bull cancer cardiac cartilages chest Chir chirurgie Cin'ti Clin Compt corps etrangers cysts Deutsche diagnosis diaphragm disease drainage effusion empyema esophagoscopy esophagus foreign bodies fractures Gazz Gesellsch gland heart hemorrhage incision infection injury insufflation intratracheal Jour klin Lancet Lancet-Clinic Leipz Leipzig ligation Lond London lung lungenchirurgie Lyon mediastinal mediastinum method Milano Munchen Napoli neoplasms nerve operation Paris patient pericarditis pericardium Petersb Phila Philadelphia Physiol pleura pleural cavity pleurisy pneumothorax poumon pressure psittacosis pulmonary puncture removal rend resection ribs rupture sarcoma spinal structures Surg surgery surgical suture symptoms Therap thoracic thoracotomy thymus tion tissue trachea tracheotomy traitement treatment tube tumor Ueber vagus Verhandl viii visceral Vrach wall Wchnschr Wien wound xvii xxiii xxvii Ztschr
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Page 9 - I remember, that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him (which was but a while before he died), what were the things that induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed, that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the...
Page 9 - ... that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.
Page 3 - If the patient be a freed man, he receives five shekels. 217. If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels. 218. If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor...
Page 4 - The patient is placed upon the table with the head in the normal straight position. A general anesthetic is administered. The modified direct laryngoscope is passed straight down between the incisor teeth, and when the epiglottis comes into view the spatula end of the instrument is hooked behind it. By making slight pressure on the upper teeth the epiglottis and base of the tongue are pulled up and the larynx opened for inspection. A weak solution of cocaine is now applied to the larynx through the...
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Page 3 - If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off. 219. If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.
Page 3 - ... incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off. 219. If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave. 220. If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.
Page 4 - ... pressure on the upper teeth the epiglottis and base of the tongue are pulled up and the larynx opened for inspection. A weak solution of cocaine is now applied to the larynx through the tube to prevent reflexes. With the laryngoscope in position, the bronchoscope is passed through it to the vocal cords. With the eye fixed on the end of the smaller tube, a slight twisting motion is used, which sends the bronchoscope between the cords. The breathing is now distinctly tubal in character. The laryngoscope...
Page 3 - ... fee. 225. If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value. 226. If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off. 227. If...
Page 11 - mesmeric sleep" for a recurring carcinoma of the breast. In the third operation, the axillary glands were also removed. "The patient gave no indication whatever of sensibility." (Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, March, May, and September, 1845.) Dr. Dugas believed that the phenomena of mesmeric sleep might be so utilized as to "render them available to all sufferers.