Identifier: minorsurgeryband00whar (find matches)
Title: Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, etc.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wharton, Henry R. (Henry Redwood), 1853-1925
Subjects: Surgery, Minor Bandages
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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Plugging the nares from the front. (Roberts.)Fig. 236.
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Plugging the nares with Bellocqs eanula. (Fergusson.) 310 MINOR SURGERY. the floor of the nose until it reaches the pharynx, whenthe spring being protruded, the ligature is seized andbrought out of the mouth and secured to a plug of lint orof antiseptic gauze of the required size, and upon with-drawing the instrument the plug is brought into positionin the posterior nares and the end of the ligature allowedto protrude from the mouth to facilitate its removal (Fig.236). An ordinary flexible catheter may be employed in-stead of Bellocqs canula for the introduction of the liga-ture. Hemorrhage from the Urethra.—In hemorrhage fromthe urethra, if profuse, the blood will trickle from themeatus ; or if efforts at micturition are made, the first por-tion of urine will contain blood, but afterward will be clear,and the last portion will contain a few drops of pure blood. This variety of bleeding, if it proceeds from the ante-rior portion of the urethra, may be controlled by theintroduction o

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