PRACTICAL SURGERY.

Notes on Practical Surgery

as a preliminary to laryngotomy, for the removal of warts from the larynx. The tube used was Fuller's, with a split or dilating outer canula. Bronchitis supervened ; but after a few days the child was apparently doing well. On the seventh day after the operation severe arterial haemorrhage occurred from the trachea, with fatal result. At the autopsy, the trachea and innominate artery opposite t...

Operative and Practical Surgery

We welcome this addition to the works on operative and practical surgery chiefly on account of its real practical nature. The numerous illustrations are mostly very graphic,, and show very clearly by their diagrammatic outlines the chief points they are required to delineate. Both the practitioner and the student will find the study of this volume decidedly beneficial, and at the same time plea...

Practical Thoracic Surgery

Pneumothorax by definition is the accumulation of free air or gas in the pleural space. Air may enter the pleural space from any of three sources: the lung itself via a pleuropulmonary leak; the atmosphere via a pleurocutaneous, pleuroesophageal or pleurobronchial communication; or due to the presence of gas-forming organisms in the pleural space. Pneumothorax is classified according to its eti...

Outlines of Practical Surgery

Practical Anaesthesia for Lung Surgery

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