GAN 
fiderably lifted up, and pace ‘from ihe natural fituation, 
he ganglion alfo extended 
d 
The lower part of the cyt adhered to the 
tendons of the extenfor mufcles, from which the whole was _ 
and ea ete = ufe of her -hand. 
p. 16 other cafes are recorded by the fame ac 
of = being ences cured by extirpation. 
id e 0 allow, that, in fome infance, 
but, he adds, that he never knew one cafe that did not sie 
minate well. 
Mr. Gooch, in the fecond volume of his chirurgical 
works, relates a cafe which he alfo cured with the knife. 
"Fieifter likewife ftates, that he has feveral Gide cut away 
ganglions with fuccefs. 
Whenever a ganglion is unnfually large and troublefome, 
and does not yield to prefl ure and difcutients, we thot ud ge- 
nerally recommend its removal with a-knife. 
If the cafe be in a ftate cor diveston: the fooner the ope- 
ration is done the better, by reafon of the danger ie the dif. 
eafe now ‘putting on a malignant character. o ulcer 
exifts, a fimple longitudinal cut through the integuments 
fuffices ; but when the fkin is ulcerated, = the = 
burft, the furgeon egin his operation by pani 
oval or circular clon which will take. sans all the difeafed 
part of the awed aie ments. 
Mr. Warn 
ave ‘not 
ae auftic; we 
ANGOU 
Ganga or Ganges, a bok ri 
Hisiecs the «¢ Cow’s 
 pafies. The Upper Gangoutra is ee 
miles above Hurdwar, where the Ga ny en ee rs the plains of 
Hindooftan, placed a Tienfentaller in the parallel of 
33° The Middle Gangoutra is at Deuprag, where the 
Baghyretty, Gopoui by Major Rennell to be the true 
head of the Ganges, and the Ay haat rivers, the former 
m the 
2 
and the latter from the 
miles diftance below eS Side forming 
Ganges of Hindooftan. r Gangoutra is ihe 
opening in mount —- . Te through which it 
iflues. See NG 
GANGPOUR, 2 a res of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Qrifla, bounded on the north by Jufhpour and Bahar, ca 
‘the eaft by Konjoor, on the fouth by Sumbalpour, eet on 
the weft by Ruttunpour. The chief towns are -Gangpo 
and.-Pada. 
Gancrour is the capital es . es and is diftant 244 
miles Ww. from Calcutta.- og E. long. 84° 
GAN RA, in Ancient. Geography, a town of Pap hlago- 
nia, the rehdence of Mopfus,--king of the country, » which 
feat’ fuccours to the a againft the. Romans in. the 
GAN 
time of Antiochus the Great.—Alfo, a town of Arabia 
Felix. Steph. Byz. 
ANGRENA Onis. This A enoten.. in Surgery, a 
deep, irregular, eee ae ulcer, ance on the infide 
of the lips and cheek. ‘T'he prec eding n is that which 
n Swieten ; but the difeafe has had feve- 
The malady i is ape le attended with a uaa iat 
of the faliva; and it only affects childre oie r fev 
“ldom ‘grown up perfons alee 
ed, and, when the oe at- 
li 
to the infide of the ce which {wells and feels hard. 
ums are fometimes involved in the difeafe, while the teeth 
are loofe and carious. 
in various adjoining fituations. tha 
fometimes take place from the alveolar eras and other 
are not kept d 
crowded together. The exa 
ever, is unkno own, When the eyescen is 
ear ae 
ne —— may 
e internal treatment, eocommented by authors, confifts 
f principally 0 of milk and- vegetable diet, bark, vitriolic aci id, 
por 
"The spplications to the difeafe na age! be diluted vi- 
of m yrrh, the 
ia aoe e metimes thefe applications may be 
as gargles ; (omens: by wetting . as = pieces of. ot, 
which are to be put and kept upon 
Gancrana Offs, coc denotes acaries; fometimes 
the difeafe k ‘known by the name of fpina.ventofa. 
GA NE, derived fram i Greek youve, £0 feed 
the word morti ae which, we know, denotes the death of 
fome part of the owever, it is be obferved, that 
when the cate or a confiderable portion of a hone dies, 
e flefh being ares in fimilar mifchief, 
ot denominated a gangrene, but a necrofis, as we 
have occafion to explain more fully in a future volume 
of this Cyclopedia. 
‘Although gangrene and mortification are not unfrequently 
employed fynonymoufly by many refpect €table writers and 
practitioners, yet a diftinction is femetimes drawn, of which 
we en I fently make mention 
heehee: F0f, il f, 
ber of diferent caufes, and, of ae it varies very confider- 
£5 
ve been’ 
we feel that the cay befor 
cuffion. We fhall find that a good adel of error has pre- 
vailed i in the ae treatment of mortifications, principally, 
in confequence of ‘that-blind enthufiafm which aoe 
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