4 PRINCIPLES OP TETEEINAET SURGERY 



dog. True stock as seen in man (vasomotor paresis, the 

 Wood accumulating in the abdominal vessels ; shallow res- 

 piration ; -weak, compressible pulse ; clamy, profusely per- 

 spiring skin ; absence of mental originating power) is rarely 

 met with in animals ; while following serious loss of blood 

 jpale mucous membranes, weak pulse, depression, etc, 

 (anaemia), are observed. Occasionally sudden death follows 

 the aspiration of air from an injured jugular vein, death 

 being explained by air embolism of the pulmonary capil-> 

 laries, filling of the cavities of the heart with air or air 

 •embolism of the capillary vessels of the brain. 



What two forms of traumatic fever may produce systemie 

 disturbances ? 



1. Aseptic wound fever : here a slight rise of temperature 

 without detectable systemic disturbance follows the absorp*) 

 tion of pyrogenous material from the wound. 



2. Septic fever. High temperature and decided systemic 

 -disturbance due to the entrance of some specific infectious 

 material into the wound and later into the general cir- 

 ■culation. 



How would you describe any wound 9 



(1) Eegion of the body (neck, thorax, leg, etc.); (2) 

 length, width, depth, shape, direction; (3) edges of the 

 wound (sharp, lacerated, flap, swollen, inverted, etc.); (4) 

 secretion : odor, quantity, consistency, color ; (5) by palpa- 

 tion with finger or probe the presence of foreign bodies and 

 •depth are learned. Fresh and deep wounds of the articu- 

 lations, abdominal, cranial and thoracic cavities, tendot 

 sheaths, and those where deep and serious hemorrhage was 

 arrested, should not be probed. 



