INDEX TO VOLUME II 



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Wounds, contused {continued) : 



of head or foot, benefits of antiseptic method 



conspicuous in treatment of, 131. 

 every isolated slough in vicinity of, must be 



dressed antiseptically, 152. 

 with smashing of hand or foot, healed by means 



of antiseptic dressing and drainage tubes, 248, 

 must be purified by powerful antiseptic means. 



Wounds, deep : successfully treated by antiseptic 

 dressing and drainage tube (Saxtorph), 248. 



Wounds, incised : carbolic acid not suitable for 

 application to, owing to caustic properties, 



341- 



Wounds, operation : grosser forms of septic mis- 

 chief must be excluded from, 351. 



Wounds of scalp: antiseptic treatment of, 139, 

 140, 151. 

 details of dressing, 139, 140. 



Wounds, simple incised : antiseptic treatment of, 



44- .... 



Wrist, disease of : treated by antiseptic incision, 



194; case treated by partial excision under 



spray, 195. 

 antiseptic excision of, for caries, 199. 

 formation of new joint after, 200. 

 caries of, treated by early free incision practised 



antiseptically, 200. 

 disease of, treated by actual cautery (Syme), 375, 



376. 

 excision of, for canes, 417. 



See also Caries. 

 Wrist, excision of: cases illustrating author's 



method of operating and its results, 419, 420, 



431, 422, 423, 424, 425. 

 improvements in method, 425, 426, 438, 439. 

 detailed description of the method, 427, 428, 429, 



430- 

 after-treatment of, 431, 432, 433, 434. 



passive movements, 432, 433. 



persistence of sinuses after operation, 435, 436, 



437- , . 



hospital gangrene causing return of disease, 435, 



436, 437. 438, 439- 

 death after, 439, 440. 

 review of results, 440. 

 mode in which new joint is formed, 438. 

 pyaemia after, 439, 440. 

 Wrist-joint, disease of : cured by actual cautciy 



(Syme), 375, 376. 

 amputation at, 398, 399. 



X-rays. See Rontgen. 



YcoLst plant : produces vinous fermentation in 

 saccharine solution, 47. 

 discovered by Cagniard-Latour in 1836, 479. 

 and independently in following year by Schwann, 



479- 



Yersin : his experiments on agents having germi- 

 cidal action on tubercle bacillus, 351. 



Young, James (Plymouth) : his description (in 

 Ciirrus Triitmplialis e Terebintho, 1679) of a 

 tourniquet invented by himself, 381. 

 method of amputation with single flap (1678), 

 383 ; suggested to him by C. Lowdham, 383. 



Ziegler : experiments showing that leucoc^-tes 

 penetrate very thin spaces between plates of 

 glass or other chemically inert foreign body, 

 inserted among tissues, 334. 

 Zinc chloride : use of, in surgical operations and 

 wounds introduced by Campbell de Morgan, 51, 

 214 {footnote). 

 antiseptic effects of, 51. 

 in treatment of compound fracture, 52. 

 inferior to carbolic acid except in cases when 

 application must be made once for all at time 

 of operation, 53. 

 valuable after removal of portions of maxillary 



bone, 53. 

 used with advantage by author after removal 



of tongue, ■:)3- 

 injection of, to sinuses in amputations and 



excisions, 131 {footnote), 214. 

 use of, as antiseptic in treatment of sinuses, 



214. 

 accidents from injection of, into sinuses at begin- 

 ning of operation, 214. 

 its peculiar advantages as an antiseptic, 214. 

 failure of, owing to antiseptic not penetrating 



into recesses, 251. 

 smarting caused bv, 24^ {footnote). 

 ZI^X CYANIDE AND MEJRCURY, FURTHER 



OBSERVATIONS ON (1889), 324. 

 Zinc cyanide : found to have antiseptic properties, 

 320, 321 ; but not so powerful as double 

 cyanide of mercurv, 321. 

 experiments on antiseptic power of, 321, 322. 

 Zinc cyanide gauze. See Gauze. 

 Zinco-cyanide of mercury. See Mercury. 

 Zinco-cyanide of mercurj- gauze. See Gauze. 



