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INDEX TO VOLUME II 



Abscesses, chronic : antiseptic evacuation of, by 

 aspirator, 223. 

 tubercle bacillus always present in pyogenic 



membrane, 347. 

 effect of relief of tension by antiseptic drainage, 



347- 



Abscesses with fetid contents : antiseptic treat- 

 ment often successful in, 348. 

 illustrative case, 348. 



Abscesses in lungs : multiple : produced by intro- 

 duction of pus into veins of an animal (Sedillot), 

 516. 



Abscesses, putrid : scraped out with sharp spoon, 

 251. 



Absorption : does not require special set of 

 vessels, but may be effected by granulation, 



17. 

 of fragments of bone in compound fracture 

 treated ^^^th carbolic acid, 16, 38, 66, 148, 193. 

 of dead bone free from decomposition by granu- 

 lations, 40. See also Bone, 

 of unaltered dead tissue, 49. 

 Academie des Sciences : confirms results of Pas- 

 teur's experiments on organisms in air, 485, 

 486. 

 Achromatic microscope : Joseph Jackson Lister's 



labours in improvement of, 543. 

 Actual Cautery\ See Cautery. 

 Adhesive plaster. See Plaster. 

 Air : its septic energy proportional to abundance 

 of organisms in it, 47. 

 organisms in, killed by high temperature, 47. 

 deprived of power of producing decomposition or 

 organic growth by passing in gentle stream 

 through narrow tortuous glass, 47. 

 complete exclusion of, from wound no security 



against putrefaction, 54. 

 fresh admixture of, with wound or abscess will 

 not induce putrefaction if germs have been 

 filtered or killed, 54. 

 no forms of life arise spontaneously in, 57. 

 destruction of floating ferments the essence of 

 antiseptic treatment, 205. 

 Air dust : causes development of organisms and 

 decomposition, 47. 

 the essential cause of organic development and 



putrefactive changes in urine, 60. 

 investigation of, by means of beams of condensed 

 hght, 175. See also Dust, Atmosphere. 

 Air passages : filter air passing through them of 



germs, 61. 

 Alanson (Liverpool) : method of amputation so as 

 to provide cover for bone, 383. 

 case of amputation at ankle by posterior flap in 

 which pressure of artificial extremity on 

 stump caused no inconvenience, 386, 387. 

 Albumen : experiments by author on effect of 

 sublimate wood wool on, 299. 

 interferes with antiseptic action of corrosive 

 sublimate, 310. 

 Albumen of serum or blood : action of corrosive 



sublimate upon, 299. 

 Alembroth. See Sal Alembroth. 

 Aluminium chloride : as an antiseptic wash for 



raw surfaces, 180. 

 Ammonia theory of coagulation of blood (Richard- 

 son's), 53^, 536 (footnote). 

 AMPUTATION, ON (1883), 378; 416 [fooi- 

 notey 



Amputation : teaching of Hippocrates on, 2i7^' 

 method of, recommended by Celsus, 378. 

 Galen's teaching as to, 379; repeated (1618) by 



Fabricius ab Aquapendcnte, 380. 

 Fabricius Hildanus on, 380. 

 method of, practised by Archigenes, 379, 380. 

 with sort of guillotine (Purmannus, 1696), 380. 

 ordinary method of performing, in seventeenth 



century described by Richard Wiseman, 380, 



381. 

 Alanson's method, 383. 



Benjamin Bell's method, 383. 

 James Young's method by flaps, 383. 

 Verduin's method, 383, 384. 

 Vermale's method, 384. 

 Ravaton's method with two flaps, 384. 

 Garengeot's method, 384. 

 Teale's method, 387, 388, 389. 

 Garden's method, 389 ; its advantages, 390. 

 Spence's method, 390. 

 Amputation : by ' double incision ', 382. 



circular method of, brought to perfection by 

 Hey, 383 ; modified by Listen and Syme, 385. 

 circular and flap operations compared, 384, 385 ; 

 flap method of, 383-4; advantages of method 

 by posterior flap, 387 ; advantages of anterior 

 flap, 387. 

 method of tying ligatures in, 393, 394 ; torsion 

 of vessels in, 394 ; use of screw tourniquet in, 

 394 ; Esmarch's elastic bandage in, 394 ; 

 elevation of limb with application of elastic 

 bandage in, 395 ; dressing of stumps after, 

 396. 

 done in seventeenth century without any at- 

 tempt to provide covering for bone, 380 ; 

 ordinary method of performing in seventeenth 

 century described by Richard Wiseman, 380, 

 381 ; ligature never thought of during Middle 

 Ages, 380 ; use of fillet for control of haemor- 

 rhage in, by mediaeval surgeons, 380 ; superi- 

 ority of ligature to cautery advocated by 

 Pare, 380; use of tourniquet in, -.381, 382; 

 rapidity of performance rendered unnecessary 

 by discovery of anaesthesia, 386 ; greater 

 danger the nearer the seat is to trunk, 388-; 

 Diefl^enbach [in footnote) says ' danger rises 

 by inches ', 388. 

 instruments required for, 391 ; method of using 

 these, 392, 393. 

 Amputation at ankle : Syme's method, 386; Richard 



jNIackenzie's method, 406. 

 Amputation above ankle, 407, 408. 

 Amputation of arm, 399, 400. 

 Amputation through calf, 408, 409. 

 Amputation at elbow-joint, 399. 

 Amputation through condyles of femur: Garden's 

 method, 410, 411. 

 author's modification, 410. 

 Amputation of finger, 397, 398. 

 Amputation in forearm, 399. 

 Amputation of hand : by chisel and mallet 



(Scultctus), 380. 

 Amputation at hip-joint, 199, 412, 413, 414, 415, 

 416; antiseptic dressing in, 199. 

 primary amputation at, recovery, 203. 

 details of antiseptic dressing, 204. 

 Amputation through knee-joint, 410, 411 ; Pollock 



{in footnote), 411. 

 Amputation in lower extremity, 402. 



