Five years' surgical work in the Manchester royal infirmary

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J.E. Cornish, 1874 - Surgery - 99 pages
 

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Page 57 - ... either outwards or inwards. Then, again, you should be careful that the foot touches the foot-piece by the three balls of the sole — the ball of the heel, the ball of the great toe, and the ball of the little toe. If the foot is set against the foot-piece so that these three chief points, upon which in standing or walking it rests, are in exact contact with the foot-piece, or nearly and evenly approximated to it, when the patient rises with the fracture healed they must hold the same position,...
Page 63 - ... which he had to undergo in coming here. The case of popliteal aneurism cured by pressure, was in a man who then had a double aneurism, a large one on the right side, and a small one commencing on the left. In this case, after other means had failed, I used the three-pad tourniquet which I exhibited at the recent meeting of the British Medical Association in London, and since these reports were drawn up, this same patient has been under my care in the hospital, for the aneurism of the opposite...
Page 18 - ... bone; still further enlarging the opening, I could feel it plainly, and once more increasing the size of the wound I proceeded to draw it out with a pair of necrosis forceps, when to my astonishment it turned out to be, not a portion of bone, but a large piece of the breech of the gun-barrel, nearly three inches in length and three quarters of an inch in width, and forming very nearly one quarter of the circumference of the barrel. This...

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