Trephining in Its Ancient and Modern AspectsBale, 1894 - 133 páginas |
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... lesions that can be removed or relieved by elevation or extraction of vertebral débris , or the opening of the sheath to lessen tension , this should be done by the use of the elevator and trephine . A All these changes may not be ...
... lesions that can be removed or relieved by elevation or extraction of vertebral débris , or the opening of the sheath to lessen tension , this should be done by the use of the elevator and trephine . A All these changes may not be ...
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... lesions of the head , and appears to have been done with a circular trephine ; but it seems that the operation was far more ancient , and was applied to the treatment of other head affections . Until quite recently trephining of a ...
... lesions of the head , and appears to have been done with a circular trephine ; but it seems that the operation was far more ancient , and was applied to the treatment of other head affections . Until quite recently trephining of a ...
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... lesion . Was this diagnosis correct ? Did the operation succeed in evacuating a fluid poured into the cranium ? I am far from affirming this , but am tempted to believe it . In truth , the internal table around the opening is the seat ...
... lesion . Was this diagnosis correct ? Did the operation succeed in evacuating a fluid poured into the cranium ? I am far from affirming this , but am tempted to believe it . In truth , the internal table around the opening is the seat ...
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... lesions of the skull , where there are symptoms of an accumulation of blood or pus pressing on the brain , and the usual therapeutic agents remain in- effective . The following were the contra - indications for trephining : ( 1 ) When a ...
... lesions of the skull , where there are symptoms of an accumulation of blood or pus pressing on the brain , and the usual therapeutic agents remain in- effective . The following were the contra - indications for trephining : ( 1 ) When a ...
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... lesions at the bedside of the patient . This difficulty , in fact , was one of the principal strongholds of the adversaries of trephining . The surgeons of the day were divided into two parties , but the prevailing opinion was against ...
... lesions at the bedside of the patient . This difficulty , in fact , was one of the principal strongholds of the adversaries of trephining . The surgeons of the day were divided into two parties , but the prevailing opinion was against ...
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abscess amulets antiseptic aphasia applied artery blood bone forceps brain Broca cause cent centres cerebral cicatrix compound fracture convolutions convulsions cord cortex cranium cured death denuded depressed bone depressed fracture diagnosis dilated disease dressed dura dura-mater edges elevator epilepsy extravasation fatal favour fissure of Rolando followed foreign bodies fragments of bone frontal frontal bone functions hæmorrhage head healed hemiplegia Hospital incision indicated inflammation inner table instrument intra-cranial irritation laceration lesion lint localisation London Medical membranes middle meningeal artery millimetres motor occipital lobe oil of roses opening operation paralysis parietal parietal bone patient performed pericranium pieces of bone portion of bone posterior Pott practice present pressure Prunières pulse pupils recovered recovery relief removed result says scalp sindon skull slight spine splintering success suppuration surface surgeon surgery surgical symptoms of compression temperature terebra tion traumatic epilepsy treatment trepan trephined skulls trephining tumour wound
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Página 130 - Hey's saw or bone-forceps where practicable, so as to give exit to pus, or remove a source of otherwise fatal irritation ; but it seems to me that the important and yet undecided question is, Are we to use these means at first, without waiting for the development of symptoms, in order to prevent their occurrence...
Página 76 - The bifurcation of the fissure of Sylvius corresponds to a point one inch and a quarter behind and a quarter of an inch above the level of the external angular process of the frontal bone.
Página 103 - ... the structural damage and the cerebral symptoms present — considerations which the distinguished author of the work himself fully recognizes — it would be unsafe to speak with confidence on the subject, and especially where the weight of English, French and German military surgical authorities is directly antagonistic. I am inclined to believe that the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes, and that while the European practice has been too restricted, the American may have been...
Página 102 - Crimea ; when the operation of trephining can only be an additional complication to the original injury, without any probable advantage. Where irregular edges, points, or pieces of bone are forced down and penetrate — not merely press upon — the cerebral substance, or where abscess manifestly exists in any known site, or a foreign substance has lodged near the surface, and relief cannot be afforded by the wound, trephining may be resorted to for the purpose; but the application of the operation,...
Página 56 - Some of these fits lasted as much as six hours, during which the patient retained his consciousness. This patient was affected with an ulceration which lasted over a period of between eight and nine years, and which had extended over the skin of the whole right arm, from the shoulder to the wrist. The application of the trephine in this case was made over the right temporal bone; the portion of the internal table removed was slightly roughened, but not nearly so much as in the preceeding case.
Página 66 - There were two formidable barriers to the advance of surgery in this region : — First, the fact that the majority of intra-cranial operations were attended by inflammatory action, which so often proved fatal as to cause surgeons to shun active interference ; and, secondly, the brain was a dark continent in which they could descry neither path nor guide capable of leading them to a particular diseased area, and, did they attempt to reach it, it could only be by groping in the dark.