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Title: Postoperative treatment; an epitome of the general management of postoperative care and treatment of surgical cases as practised by prominent American and European surgeons
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Morse, Nathan Clark. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Operations, Surgical. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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andothers advise the use of a Compress* after the operation has been quitecompleted. This instrument is intended to occlude the newly madeurethra, and to be removed when required. It cannot be recommended, on these grounds: in the first place, thecapacity of the new bladder is very small; and in the second place, theconstant pressure of the instrument is capable of producing a sloughor even a urinary fistula. In the most successful cases a urinal cannot be dispensed with. Results of the Operation Generally.—The results claimed in themost successful cases are that the raw surface of the bladder is protectedand covered in, and that a urinal can be worn which will keep the patient *An instrument devised for making pressure over the new-made urethra. MISCE) 1 ^NEOUS OPERATIONS. 33* quite dry. Many patients are free from the inconvenience of incon-tinence when they arc lying down, but in no instance can it be claimedthat the patient has acquired a control over the bladder. These results,
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Fig. 95.—X-ray Photograph Showing the Result of Pubiotomy Taken Immedi-ately FOLLOttING THE BlRTH OF THE CHILD. THE CONJUGATE DIAMETER HAVING been Increased Two and One-Quarter Inches. however, are very satisfactory when the miserable condition of thepatients before the operation is considered. (Treves.) SYMPHYSIOTOMY. General Considerations.—After the completion of the labor, thewound should be thoroughly cleansed with sterile water, and lastlyalcohol. Three or four stout silk, silver-wire, extra large silkworm-gut,or preferably heavy kangaroo tendon sutures are used to hold in appo-sition the separated bones. The sutures should be inserted at leastone-half inch from the margins of the muscular insertion, and shouldinclude all the fibrous tissue down to and including the periosteum.Thev are tied in the median line, cut short, or buried. The superficial 332 POSTOPERATIVE TREATMENT. incision may then be closed after the ordinary method, small rubbertissue drainage being indispensab

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