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Updated: June 14, 2025
Ojeda bore the frightful agony without a murmur or a quiver, such was his extraordinary endurance. It was the custom in that day to bind patients who were operated upon surgically, that their involuntary movements might not disconcert the doctors and cause them to wound where they hoped to cure. Ojeda refused even to be bound.
Strips of an old handkerchief, underclothing, or cotton wadding may also be used as a compress, provided pressure is not neglected. In the after-treatment it is of great importance that the wound and the dressing should be kept free from bacteria by keeping everything surgically clean. Where and how to Apply Pressure.
The margins of the wound were cleansed as heretofore described, a drainage was provided surgically, tincture of iodin was injected and the wound was covered with equal parts of boric acid and exsiccated alum. The horse was kept tied and a diluted tincture of iodin was injected into the wound once daily and the powder applied often enough to keep the wound covered.
One of the methods used to treat the disease is to remove some of the gland surgically. In the early days an operator would occasionally remove too, much gland and then the symptoms, of myxoedema would occur. This necessitated the artificial feeding of thyroid the rest of the patient's life!
* Such wounds may be classified in two general groups as follows: First, wounds in which the trauma has exposed the articulation to view, and second, those the result of punctures, in which the external wound is small and free drainage is lacking. Wounds in which the articulation is exposed to view have drainage either all ready provided for, or it is established without hesitancy surgically.
Gravely, Mother instructed me never to use the power of words for doing harm. I have always remembered her counsel, and followed it. My boil was surgically treated. A noticeable scar, left by the doctor's incision, is present today. On my right forearm is a constant reminder of the power in man's sheer word.
Subcutaneous injections of equal parts of refined oil of turpentine and alcohol, with a suitable hypodermic syringe, is a practical and ordinarily effective treatment. The syringe should be sterile and, needless to say, the site of injections must be surgically clean.
He was skilled in the use of acupuncture and cautery; but if these failed he would render his patient unconscious by a dose of hashish, and then operate surgically. He is said to have diagnosed a case of diseased bowels by the pulse alone, and then to have cured it by operation.
Ample time is allowed, however, for the surgically invaded tissues to granulate and, if the subject is to be put in service, a leather pad, under which there has been packed oakum and tar, affords good protection. Quittor. This name is employed to designate an infectious inflammation of the lateral cartilage and adjoining structures.
In the present war rifle wounds have been amongst the most deadly with which we have had to deal. It will thus be seen that in most cases the wounds were anything but clean-cut; with very few exceptions, they were never surgically clean.
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