The Cure of Rupture by Paraffin Injections
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Excerpt from The Cure of Rupture by Paraffin InjectionsIn taking up the description of the injection of paraffin for the cure of hernia a number of remarks of a prefatory nature are called for, as it is necessary to justify a treatment which has come in for a considerable censure from surgeons who have had no experience with the method and who have judged-solely from a few mishaps which came to their attention and which in no way permit of an accurate estimate of the treatment.
Chapters (123)
- The Cure of Rupture
- CHARLES C. MILLER, M. D.
- FOREWORD.
- The need which Paraffin fulfills in Hernia.
- OPERATION WITHOUT ANESTHESIA A GREAT ADVANTAGE.
- Applicable in the Physician's Office.
- Simplicity.
- Experimental injections before human injections.
- PREPARATION OF THE SKIN.
- Soap solution.
- PREPARATION OF THE HANDS OF THE OPERATOR.
- THE SYRINGE.
- PREPARATION OF THE SYRINGE.
- Material injected at room temperature.
- PREPARATION OF THE PARAFFIN.
- FORMULA NUMBER ONE.
- Containers for sterilized compounds.
- FORMULA NUMBER TWO.
- Vaseline.
- POSTURE OF PATIENT FOR INJECTION.
- Pelvis high and head low.
- SKIN INFILTRATION TO PERMIT OF INSERTION OF LONG NEEDLE WITHOUT UNDUE PAIN.
- THE EFFECT OF PARAFFIN COMPOUNDS UPON THE TISSUES.
- Object of operator.
- THE IMMEDIATE AFTER EFFECTS OF THE PARAFFIN INJECTIONS.
- THE PRECAUTION USED TO PREVENT THROWING OF PARAFFIN INTO THE CIRCULATION.
- FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN DEALING WITH INGUINAL HERNIA.
- OPERATOR MUST BE SURE HERNIA IS REDUCED.
- The average case.
- WHERE THE INJECTION SHOULD BE PLACED.
- The larger Hernia.
- THE AMOUNT OF PARAFFIN TO BE INTRODUCED IN A GIVEN CASE.
- TECHNIC TO BE USED IN INJECTING INGUINAL HERNIA.
- Test the effectiveness of the injection.
- Injection at Internal ring.
- The hypodermic needle for injection.
- BE DISCREET IF INJECTION IS PAINFUL.
- THE INJECTION OF FEMORAL HERNIA.
- INJECTION OF UMBILICAL HERNIA.
- Case Reports
- Case 1.
- Case 2.
- Case 3.
- Case 4.
- Case 5.
- Case 6.
- Case 7.
- Case 8.
- Case 9.
- Case 10.
- CONCLUSION.
- Cosmetic Surgery The Correction of Featural Imperfections
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