Hamilton Bailey

Aus den Vorworten des Verfassers „Die Krankensäle sind die größten wissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitute1 * Henr yWade, BamonGuilerasLecture, 1932 Es besteht heute die wachsende Neigung, eine Diagnose aufzubauen auf den Ergebnissen des Laboratoriums und anderer klinischer Hilfsmittel ....

FOREWORD For over thirty years, wliich is the average lifetime of an active surgeon, my late colleague and I edited succeeding editions of Short Practice of Surgery. We were encouraged in this task as the demand for successive editions, in both English-speaking and foreign countries, indicated...

CHAPTER LXV INJURIES OF THE BRAIN AND SKULL The purpose of this chapter will be to describe primarily the methods in current use of handling cases of craniocerebral injury under optimum conditions, representing the ideal to be aimed at when practicable. In war such conditions are often...

SECTION XIWOUNDS OF BONES AND JOINTSCHAPTER L WOUNDS OF BONEWOUNDS of bone cannot occur alone. We are concerned here, not with the treatment of war wounds in general, but with those of a particular tissue of comparatively low vitality and absorptive power.The problem before us is largely the...

section viii WOUNDS OF BLOOD VESSELSCHAPTER XXXIV TOURNIQUETS AND THEIR APPLICATION" TohehiquetA surgical instrument consisting essentially of a bandage, a pad and a screw, for stopping or checking by compression the flow of blood through an artery ; also a bandage tightened by tmsting a rigid bar...

SECTION III FROST-BITE, BURNS AND SKILN GRAFTING CHAPTER XV FROST-BITE AND TRENCH FOOT FROST-BITE WHEN the body, as a whole or in part, is exposed to cold the pathological effects which ensue are best understood if they are divided into two sections, general and local, with the recognition that...

CHAPTER LXXVI WOUNDS OF THE LARGE INTESTINE A LTHOUGH anatomical disposition often preserves the large gut /% from those multiple wounds which characterize injuries of the small / m intpstinp! produced by missiles, it must be remembered that on the left side of the peritoneal cavity the...