Surgical Extracts—New Posture for Major Operations within the Nasal Cavities—The Treatment of Epididymitis and Orchitis—A New Operation for Nephrorrhaphy—Surgical Aspects of Tuberculosis—Antipyrine and Tannic Acid as a Styptic

years, adopted the following method to obviate the inconvenience arising from haemorrhage into the larynx during such operations; the ordinary methods, such as plugging the post-nasal cavity, or preliminary tracheotomy, having greater disadvantages. He places the patient, after thorough anaesthesia, in a ventral recumbent position, with the head projecting face downwards over the edge of the table, the head is supported in a horizontal position by the hand of an assistant, and by placing a bandage around the forehead, and fastening the ends to a rigid support above the table. The topographical relation of the parts is of course altered,