INDEX TO VOLUME II 



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Organisms : excluded from wound by scab mechani- 

 cally, 83 ; by metallic plaster owing to germ 

 poison in surrounding dressing, 84. 

 relation of, to septic energy of air, 47. 

 development of, caused by air dust, 47. 

 with most resisting spores cause no trouble in 

 surgical work, 351. 

 Organisms, living atmospheric: exclusion of, during 

 operations impossible, 342 ; but no harm 

 caused by their entrance, 342. 

 Organisms, pyogenic : not abundant in dust of 



hospitals, 344. 

 ' Organization ' : process of, in blood, lymph and 

 catgut, 118. 

 of clots and sloughs under antiseptic treatment, 



153. 

 Os frontis, fracture of. See Fracture. 

 Ovariotomies, : G. Granville Bantock's remarkable 



series of, 335. 

 Ovariotomy : catgut for tying pedicle must be 

 of specially strong quality, 271 (footnote). 



successful results without use of antiseptics, 275. 



objections to use of antiseptic method in, 275. 



without antiseptic precautions, successful pos- 

 sibly because no septic organisms have been 

 introduced into peritoneum in condition 

 capable of developing in diffused serum, 270. 



explanation of success of operiition witho\it 

 antiseptic precautions, 285. 



limited abscess after, 286. 

 Ovariotomy, antiseptic : not in author's opinion 



a touchstone of antiseptic principle, 275. 

 Oxygen, atmospheric : not of itself cause of putrefac- 

 tion, 480 ; held by Liebig to be primary cause 

 of putrefaction, 497. 



Paget, James : stasis of blood in capillaries of 

 bat's wnng resulting from irritating applica- 

 tions, 518. 

 Palm : fetid suppurating wound of, treated by 

 injection of saturated watery solution of 

 carbolic acid, 83. 

 Paraffin cerate : as veliicle for carbolic acid, 71. 

 crumbles and becomes useless in situations such 

 as groin, 71. 

 Pare, Ambroise : his advocacy of Ugature for arrest 

 of haemorrhage, 379 (footnote). 

 urged ligature in preference to cautery for arrest 



of haemorrhage in amputation, 380. 

 his teaching failed for a long time to influence 

 surgeons, 380. 

 Parotid tumour. See Tumour. 

 PART III. THE ANTISEPTIC SYSTEM ( 1 867 ), 



I. 

 PART IV. SURGERY (1854), S73- 

 PART V, ADDRESSES (1869), 477. 

 Paste, carbolic acid : wound in compound fracture 

 closed b)', 28. 

 in treatment of abscess, 43. 

 as a dressing, 68. 

 its inconvenience, 68. 

 See also Carbolic. 

 I'asteur : decomposition of organic substance bv 

 exposure to atmosphere, 2. 

 se])tic i^ropcrty of atmosphere due to organisms, 



researches on living organisms in atmosphere, 47, 



484- ■ 

 \inous or butvric fcrmcnlation in same sac- 



Pasteur (continued) : 



charine solution produced by different organ- 

 isms, 47. 

 modification of experiment illustrating germ 



theory of putrefaction, 54. 

 cxj)eriment on putrefaction by boiling liquid in 



flask with attenuated and contorted necks, 173, 



484. 

 smell of suet resulting from oxidation of fatty 



matter in boiled milk, 302. 

 on Koch's method of cultivating bactena on 



soUd media, 332. 

 showed putrefaction and other fermentative 



changes to be due to micro-organisms, 340. 

 destroyed idea of spontaneous generation, 340. 

 showed that air of ever\' inhabited place teems 



with various microbes, 349. 

 his results confirmed by Committee of French 



Academy of Sciences, 485, 486. 

 experiment on cause of putrefaction in urine, 



486 (footnote). 

 work on fermentation, 492, 493, 494, 495, 497. 

 his demonstration of importance of micro- 

 organisms in economy of Nature, 494, 495. 

 influence of his work on surgery, 495. 

 ]us demonstration that putrefaction is fermenta- 

 tion caused by gro\\i;h of microbes, 497. 

 liis induction that all infective disorders are of 



microbic origin confirmed, 502. 

 his recognition of importance of Koch's ' plate 



culture ' of bacteria, 503. 

 attenuation of virus by cultivation of bacterium 



of fowl cholera, 504. 

 researches on hydrophobia, 506. 

 his work in bacteriology, 512. 

 his demonstration that putrefaction is caused 



by growth of microbes, 542. 

 Pasteur's germ theory : author's experiments in 



confirmation of, 499. 

 Pasteur's solution : addition of drop of tap water 



to, causes development of micro-organisms, 



277. 

 Patella, fracture of: letter (1895) <^i^ treatment of 



a case of long standing, 471. See also Fracture. 

 Patella, fracture of long standing : wiring in two 



stages without division of quadriceps. 472; 



details of operation, 472, 473. 474 ; result of, 



474. 475- 

 ad\dce as to treatment of a case, 475. 

 disadvantages of division of quadriceps extensor 

 for approximation of fragments, 471 ; wiring 

 without such division, 471. 

 Patella, transverse fracture of : wired and drained 

 with horsehair, 446. 

 recent cases of, treated by wiring. 457. 458, 459, 



462, 463. 464. 

 method of operating, 465. 



importance of avoiding entrance of septic mis- 

 chief, 466. 

 case in which no operation was performed. 460, 



467. 

 osseous union alter wiring. 451), 401. 463, 465. 

 remarks on method of treatment, 467, 46S. 

 antiseptic treatment in, 469. 

 Patella, ununited transverse fracture of: treated 



by wiring, 456, 457, 45c), 460, 461. 

 Patellar bursa. Sec Bursa. 

 ' I'athogenic bacteria '. See Bacteria. 

 Pathological researches: author's early. 515. 



