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INDEX TO VOLUxME II 



Ligature, aseptic : docs not cause irritation, but 

 strengthens vessel by replacement of catgut 

 by ring of living tissue about the vessels, 190. 



Ligature : for arrest of haemorrhage : Fare's 

 strenuous advocacy of, 379 (footnote). 

 slowness of surgeons in sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries to adopt it, 379. 



Ligature made of peritoneum. See Peritoneum. 



Ligature, septic : effect of, on arteries, 86. 



a cause of secondary haemorrhage, 86 {and foot- 

 note on same page). 

 death caused by diffuse suppuration after, '^y. 

 irritation of, causes softening of external coat 

 and haemorrhage, 190. 



Ligatures may be cut short and left under anti- 

 septic treatment, 44. 



Ligatures, animal. See Animal. 



Ligatures, catgut. See Catgut. 



Ligatures, hempen. See Hempen. 



Ligatures, leather. See Leather. 



Ligatures, silk. See Silk. 



Ligatures, tendon. See Tendon. 



Limb, upper : more favourably circumstanced for 

 amputation than the lower, 396. 



Lindpaintner : sent by v. Nussbaum to Edinburgh 

 to learn antiseptic system, 500. 



Linen, old (preferably boiled before use) : better 

 than water dressing in absence of chemical 

 antiseptics, 355. 



Lint, boracic. See Boracic. 



Lip, lower : boracic ointment dressing after plastic 

 operations for repair of, 244, 245. 



Liquor chlori, B.P. : appUcation of, to wound in 

 which putrefaction had occurred, 155. 



Liquor sanguinis : abnormal effusion of, in acute 

 inflammatory disturbance, 533; causing 

 ' brawny ' swelUng of parts, 533 ; how this 

 differs from ' doughy ' character of oedema, 533. 



Lisfranc : method of amputation at shoulder-joint, 



400; Dupu>i;ren's modificationof, 400 (/oo/«o/e). 



method of separating metatarsus from tarsus, 



403. 

 LISTER, THE LATE JOSEPH JACKSON, 

 OBITUARY NOTICE OF, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO HIS LABOURS IN THE 

 IMPROVEMENT OF THE ACHROMATIC 

 MICROSCOPE {1870), 543. 

 Lister, Joseph Jackson : improvements in micro- 

 scope based on principles introduced by, 502. 



liis improvements in compound microscope, 515. 



early predilection for optics, 543. 



note (1824) of first attempt to improve achro- 

 matic microscope, 543, 544. 



camera lucida invented by, 545. 



his criticism of Che\'alier's plano-convex lenses, 



545. 

 experiments with Utzschneider and Fraiinho- 



fer's plano-convex lenses, 546, 547. 

 discovery of aplanatic foci, 547, 548. 

 experiments on object glasses, 549. 

 letter to Sir John Herschel, 549, 550. 

 observations on zoophytes, 550. 

 unpublished paper on limits of human vision, 



.550. 

 his relation to the British microscope, 550, 551. 

 described as ' the pillar and source of all the 



microscopy of the age ', 551. 

 his wide intellectual interests and character, 552. 

 his death, 552. 



Liston, Robert : strongly advocated flap operation 

 in removal of Umbs, 384, 385 ; modified circular 

 method, 38 5. 

 catch forceps introduced by, 393. 

 bone pHers introduced by, 393. 

 first operation performed in England imder 



ether, 4QI. 

 amputation of thigh under chloroform, 491, 



492. 

 his preference for ' water dressing ' over ' filthy 

 unguents ', 517. 

 Lithotomy : rigor and inflammatory congestion 



of kidneys following, 532. 

 Lockjaw. See Tetanus. 

 Lodge, Oliver : radiograph of bullet embedded in 



hand, 491. 

 Loeffler : discovery of bacillus of diphtheria, 508. 

 Logwood. See Haematoxylin. 



London : inferior to Edinburgh in respect of 

 chnical surgical teaching, 451. 

 personal explanation on the subject, 451, 452. 

 Louis : method of amputation of thigh, 382. 



the first to employ digital compression of femoral 



artery instead of tourniquet, 382. 

 did not aim at complete covering of bone, 383 

 (and footnote). 

 Lowdham, C. (Exeter) : suggests method of am- 

 putation with single flap, 383. 

 Lucas-Championniere : wiring of fractured patella 

 of long standing without division of quadriceps 

 extensor, 471. 

 Lung : puncture of, without external wound, no 

 decomposition in, 3. 

 puncture of, by simple fracture of rib, no 

 decomposition of blood from, 60 ; air in pleura 

 may press on other lung, 60 ; case of death 

 from this cause, 60. 

 Lj'-mph : vascularization of, 118 

 Lymph, organizing : its resistance to development 

 of putrefactive bacteria, 286. 



Macfadyen, Allan : experiments on germicidal 

 properties of infusion of catgut prepared with 

 cliromium sulphate and corrosive sublimate, 

 121, 122. 

 Macintosh : use of, as an antiseptic dressing, 179, 

 207, 208. 

 imperfection in, leading to putrefaction, 208. 

 use of, in antiseptic gauze dressings, 261. 

 Macintyre, John : halfpenny in boy's gullet shown 



by Rontgen rays, 490, 491. 

 Mackenzie, Richard : amputation at ankle, 406. 

 Magdeburg : effects of antiseptic treatment at, 



252. 

 Mallein : toxic product of glanders, 509. 



its use for diagnostic purposes, 509. 



]Mamma : removal of, for scirrhus with division of 



both pectorals and clearance of axilla under 



antisepsis — wound healed in three weeks, 158. 



compound antiseptic dressing after removal of, 



208, 

 use of button suture after removal of, 242. 

 venous haemorrhage after removal of, and clear- 

 ing out axilla, 271, 272, 273. 

 Mamma, scirrhus of : case of death from spurious 

 pyaemia or a variety of septicaemia after 

 antiseptic operation for, 293. 

 remoN-al of congestion caused by stitches, illus- 

 trating influence of nervous system, 528. 



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