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Amputation of penis, 235. 



Amputation of phalanges of hand, 397, 398. 



Amputation at ' seat of election ' a little below 



knee, 407. 

 Amputation at shoulder-joint, 397, 400 ; safer than 

 below knee, 397. 

 Larrey's results, 400 ; his method of operating, 



401. 

 Syme's method, 401 ; Lisfranc's method, 400 ; 

 Dupuytrcn's modification of that method, 

 401. 

 Amputation through tarsus, 404. 

 Amputation of thigh : method of Louis, 382 (and 

 footnote), 383. 

 author's method for tliigh and calf, 391. 

 Amputation through thigh, 411, 412, 413, 414. 



antiseptic dressing after, 414. 

 Amputation of thumb, 398 (and footnote). 

 Amputation in upper extremity, 397. 

 Amputation at wrist-joint, 398, 399. 

 Amputation : after compound fracture of hmb, 

 obviated by antiseptic treatment, 27- 

 no constitutional symptoms in, if conducted 



antiseptically, 44. 

 death-rate from, after compound fracture, swelled 

 by inefhcient application of antiseptic system, 

 127. 

 Syme inclined to think it best course in all com- 

 pound fractures of leg, 495. 

 Amputations : use of chloride of zinc to sinuses in, 

 131 (footnote). 

 success of antiseptic method in treatment of 



(Saxtorph), 157. 

 successful results obtained by means of anti- 

 septic dressing and drainage tubes, 248, 

 Amputations, major: mortality from pyaemia after, 

 before antiseptic period, 128 ; during antiseptic 

 ]5criod, 128. 

 comparison of results, 129, 130. 

 Amputation stumps : putrefaction in, not always 

 avoidable even under antiseptic treatment, 

 130. 

 fitting of artificial limb to, 386. 

 how they become able to bear weight of bodv, 

 386, 387. 

 ' Amykos ', 227. 



boracic acid the activ'e principle in, 227. 

 an efficient antiseptic less irritating than carbolic 

 acid, 227. 

 Anaemia : extreme adliesiveness of red corpuscles 



in, 521 (footnote). 

 Anaesthesia, discovery of, 386. 

 era in history of amputation, 386. 

 Jubilee of, 491. 

 came from America, 491. 

 foreshadowed in tliis country by Humphry 



Davy, 491. 

 idea realized by W. T. G. Morton, 491, 

 first operation under ether in England witnessed 



by author, 491. 

 new era in surgery inaugurated by, 492. 

 Anaesthetics : light thrown upon biology by, 492. 

 affect animals and vegetables, 492. 

 have powerfully promoted progress of physiology 

 and patliology, 492. 

 Anderson, Dr. : sui^plicd author with crude car- 

 bolic acid, Ti(')y, 497, 

 Aneurysm of arch of aorta : death from rupture of. 

 89. 



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Aneurysm, axillary : Syme's operation for, 286, 

 287. 

 illustrates action of blood-clots in preventing 

 putrefaction, 287. 

 Aneurysm, carotid: ligature of carotid artery for, 105. 

 Aneurysm, inguinal : successfully treated by 

 ligature of external ihac artery, 88. 

 examination of parts after death from rupture 

 of aortic aneurysm, 89. 

 Aneurysm, popliteal : ligature of femoral artery 

 with catgut for (six cases), 105, 188, 189. 

 cases of antiseptic ligature of femoral artery for, 



188, 189, 218, 219, 220, 221. 

 early extension of limb after ligature of femoral 



artery for, 1 89. 

 antiseptic ligature of femoral artery for, 188. 

 antiseptic ligature of femoral artery in ' for- 

 bidden region ' for, 189. 

 Aneurysm, traumatic arterio-venous, of temporal 



artery : ligature of vessels for, 105. 

 Aneurysms : three in one lower hmb, 1 1 1 . 

 Animal ligatures : apphed antisepticallv, proba- 

 bility that they would be absorbed, 92. 

 this tested, 93. 



applied antiseptically surround artery with ring 

 of living tissue and strengthen it at ob- 

 structed point, 98. 

 Animal ligatures, asepticized : cause no inflam- 

 matory tliickening near vessels, 94. 

 converted into band of Uving tissue, 95 ; this 

 proved by microscopic examination, 96. 

 Animal ligatures unasepticized: tried and found 



unsatisfactory^ 92. 

 Ankle : case of antiseptic excision of, with abun- 

 dant micrococci which did no mischief, 103. 

 Syme's method of amputation at, 386, 404, 405, 



406, 407. 

 Pirogoff's method, 406, 407. 

 Richard ^lackenzie's method, 406. 

 Ankle, caries of. See Caries. 



Ankle, compound dislocation of : treated anti- 

 septically, 127, 137, 141, 152. 

 recoveries formerly exceptional, 137. 

 appearances of wound after five weeks, 153. 

 Ankle, compound fracture of : later details of anti- 

 septic treatment. 142, 145, 146. 155. 

 firm union obtained in six weeks, 155. 

 iVnkle-joint : opened antiseptically in operation to 

 i-emedy faulty union of fibula and internal 

 malleolus, y^, 142. 

 antiseptic opening of, for disorganization resulting 

 from injur\', 263 ; blood-clot still lying in 

 wound fifteen days after operation. 264 ; tliis 

 would have putrefied and disappeared under 

 non-antiseptic dressing, 204 ; further progress 

 of case, 266, 267. 

 Annandale : case of antiseptic ligature of external 

 iliac artery. 268. 

 wound healed without suppuration in fifteen 

 days, 269. 

 Anthrax : caused by catgut ligature prcjiared from 

 intestine of slieep that had died of the disease, 

 341 (footnote). 

 protection against by attenuation of virus, 504. 

 Anthrax bacillus has very resisting spores, 351 



if killed in catgut 



ligatures does not get into 



wouiuls, 351, 



Anthrax spores: resistance of to germicidal action 

 of corrosive sublimate, 343, 351. 



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