This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...and two great foetid masses of fibrin were found and removed. If we cannot render the discharge inoffensive, by removal of fibrin and by gentle irrigation, or if it remain profuse for some weeks after the operation, we may do well to pack the cavity lightly with a long strip of gauze. Wagner 2 for this purpose ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...and two great foetid masses of fibrin were found and removed. If we cannot render the discharge inoffensive, by removal of fibrin and by gentle irrigation, or if it remain profuse for some weeks after the operation, we may do well to pack the cavity lightly with a long strip of gauze. Wagner 2 for this purpose uses a single strip, many feet long, of weak iodoform gauze: he advocates it in any case where the cavity is not closed six weeks after the operation, or troubles and failures arise over the drainage, or the discharge remains profuse. The iodoform arrests the suppuration, and the soft gauze, loosely packed, docs not hinder the obliteration of the cavity. He makes light of the fear of iodoform-poisoning; but since two of Schede's patients, after very extensive operations, suffered from it, and one died, it would be safer to use some other ' In 1878, the use of the spray was so faithfully observed that the patient was hept sitting up txposcd to it for three hours, till all the fluid was drained out of his chest. ' Victor Wagner: " Die Behandlung der Empyeme mittelst lodoforramull Tamponade." "Wien. Klin. Wcnnschr.," 1891, p. 609. Schede has used naphthalin-gauze; or izal-gauze might be tried. Carbolic-gauze would not be free from the risk of poisoning. kind of gauze. His cases are so valuable that I give an abstract of them. 1. A man shot himself (Jan. 27th, 1880) in the sixth left space in the nipple line; the bullet passed out behind; there was free haemorrhage; air passed in and out of the wound, and emphysema spread slowly over the whole trunk. He did well for a week, then began to suffer pain, fever, and sloughing of the wound; and when he sat up, thin greenish foetid fluid poured from it, soaking the dressings and the bedclothes. Feb....
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