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Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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be cut through ; and lastly, a flap in the directionof the dotted line should be preserved from the front. PLATE XXVI. Figs. 1, 5. These figures are from Fergusson, and are given toshow his opinion of the necessity of saving as much of the hand asis possible, or that promises to be in the least degree useful. Inproof of my anxiety, he says, not to remove more than is posi-tively required, I must refer to Fig. 5, which exhibits the stumpwhich I was enabled to make in an instance of gun shot injury ofthe hand, where even the two fingers which were ultimately pre-served were in an almost hopeless condition. Fig. 6 is given for asimilar reason as those above. Figs. 4, 8. Cases of fibrous tumors, involving the bones of thehand. Fig. 7 shows the result of the operation in case of Fig. 8. Fig. 3 shows a case of diseased ring finger, in which a portionof the metacarpal bone was removed; the dotted lines show theincisions. Fig. 2 shows the result of the operation in this case, (Fig. 3.) PL 25
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