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Page 132 - into two portions or heads, from which circumstance it has received its name. The short head, or coracoid, arises by thick flattened tendon from the apex of the coracoid process, in common with the coraco-brachialis. The long, or glenoid, arises from the upper margin of the glenoid cavity by
Page 135 - in attendance upon a case of erysipelas should not attend cases of labor." While this is excellent authority, and evidently the safe side of the question, it is my observation that most physicians place sufficient confidence in disinfection to warrant them in safely entering the
Page 288 - I am free to confess that I have never been able to muster my courage to attack the skull of a poor microcephalic child, because I have always regarded the operation as useless in promoting brain
Page 133 - To enable the head of the bone to maintain its equilibrium, it is necessary that the capsular muscles should exactly counterbalance each other, and as there is no muscle from the ribs to the humérus to antagonize the upper capsular muscles,
Page 192 - of digestion. This is when the pylorus is suspended high up in the epigastrium by a short lesser omentum which also limits its movements. Under such circumstances, if the stomach is distended and overloaded, it is dragged down by the weight of its contents, and an acute flexure is formed at the junction of the duodenum and
Page 282 - raising a trap-door of the fourth and fifth costal cartilages and connecting soft parts, and using the tissues of the third interspace as a hinge. The internal mammary vessels and left pleura are thus exposed and pushed to the left.
Page 133 - at length the value of these opinions: "I shall content myself with declaring that the existence of this, or of any other form of partial luxation of the shoulder joint, as a traumatic accident, has not up to this
Page 124 - I am inclined to think that post-operative traumatic insanities are more common after pelvic operations than after others. A great deal of uterine and ovarian disease should escape the knife by the use of patient medical treatment. No grave surgery of the pelvis should be allowed without medical