Ligatures applied to the thighs and arms, sufficiently tight to arrest the circulation of blood in the veins, but not tight enough to impede it in the arteries, is a useful proceeding.
Nitrate of silver may then be used and the ligatures removed.
The antiseptic sutures and ligatures should be similarly soaked in beta-naphthol solution during the progress of the operation.
No one should touch the already prepared ligatures or instruments except the surgeon and his first or second assistants.
The ligatures under the capital are still introduced.
The capital recalls a bunch of lotus-buds in a very slight degree, the stems are not frankly detached one from another and the ligatures are repeated in unmeaning fashion.
Ligatures are either very tight or of middling tightness.
Such ligatures are employed in the removal of tumours; and in these cases, all afflux of nutriment and heat being prevented by the ligature, we see the tumours dwindle and die, and finally drop off.
Strong Ligatures should be made about the Thighs under the Ham: By this Means the Blood is prevented in its Ascent from the Legs, and less is carried up to the Head.
Clinical observations regarding ligatures applied to Fallopian tubes in the performance of Cæsarean section for the purpose of preventing pregnancy prove that this is a useless measure (see p.
Any bleeding, chiefly from branches of the posterior auricular artery, is at once arrested by pressure forceps, ligatures being afterwards applied.
The ligatures on either side are tied in two bunches and the ends cut off just within the vagina (Fig.
The ligatures were removed, the urine soon became acid, and the vesical discomfort quickly subsided, in spite of the anomalous position of the cervical stump.
Showing silk ligatures which had been introduced in the operation of Cæsarean section four years previously.
When the surgeon decides to leave an ovary and its corresponding Fallopian tube, he should take care in securing the ligatures to include the ligament of the ovary: it is very liable to slip out of the encircling loop of silk.
On dilating the urethra, it was found that the cervical stump had ulcerated through the posterior wall of the bladder and projected freely into the vesical cavity, bristling with thick silk ligatures encrusted with phosphatic deposit.
I regard it as an unsatisfactory and dangerous material; moreover it cannot be boiled, which is the simplest and safest method of making ligatures sterile.
Formerly it was considered sufficient to divide the vein between two ligatures and to leave it in situ.
The ligatures should be pulled upon a little daily after the seventh day, and they gradually cut their way through the tissues in their grasp.
The abdomen was reopened fifty-eight hours later; a distended ureter was easily recognized behind the ligatures applied to the right and left uterine artery respectively.
Abscesses and sinuses resulting from troublesome ligatures may escape in many directions; the most common spot is at the lower angle of the abdominal incision; the rectum is another channel of escape, and also the bladder.
Thus adhesions to the intestines can generally be separated with comparative ease, and seem, as a rule, to require the application of fewer ligatures than those which unite the tumour to the abdominal wall.
For a very full and interesting account of ligatures of vessels in root of neck we may refer to vol.
Both ligatures separated on the eighteenth day, and the tumour was much smaller some months afterwards.
The strangulated masses must then be returned into the bowel, and the patient kept in bed or on a sofa till the ligatures separate, which is generally not till the fourth or fifth day.
Allingham prefers ligatures of horsehair in these operations, and mentions the carbolized catgut in preference to silk.
Then pass the double ligatures as before indicated, but refrain from tying until all the tumors are thus secured, as the operator will find it convenient to draw upon the ligatures to keep the mass of piles within view and working-distance.
Double ligatures should be introduced through the gut from its mucous surface outward, and, when possible, then stitched to the skin at the margins of the wound.
If the bleeding is profuse, elastic ligatures may be applied for a short time around the upper part of one or more extremities, so as to shut out temporarily from the circulation the blood contained in the extremity.
The bowel having been completely filled, make traction upon the ligatures (thus spreading out the bell-shaped sponge), while with the other hand push up the packing.
Then draw down each tumor, cut around its base, and tie as before; cut off the ends of the ligatures and the greater portion of each strangulated tumor, and return everything within the bowel, and follow with an opium suppository.
In cold climates the snow, ice and water are likely to get in around the bud if the ligatures are not removed.
But where the stocks are vigorous and the buds set early, there will be danger of the ligatures cutting into the bark as the stocks swell or increase in diameter, unless they are loosened or entirely removed.
The ligatures should be loosened or removed as soon as the bud has become firmly united with the stock, which will usually be in ten or fifteen days, if at all.
More than once had he essayed to remove the ligatures which confined his waist; but his unsuccessful attempts only drew an occasional smile of derision from his enemy, as he glanced his eye rapidly towards him.
Ligatures are seldom necessary for the arrest of hæmorrhage unless the larger branches are injured, as the bleeding from smaller twigs is arrested by the sutures.
Krogius recommends the introduction of a series of subcutaneous ligatures so as to surround the whole periphery of the pulsating tumour, and interrupt the blood flow.
At one end of the shaft were two projections supposed to serve for holding the ligatures by which the blade was attached, and nearer the hand were a number of grooves running round the haft.
For instance, at Salerno both sutures and ligatures were employed in order to prevent bleeding.
The fact of the matter is, however, that ligatures and sutures were reinvented over and over again and then allowed to go out of use until someone who had no idea of their dangers came to reinvent them once more.
He seems to have been the first one to suggest that in metrorrhagia, with severe hemorrhage from the uterus, the bleeding might be stopped by putting ligatures around the limbs.
Ligatures were applied above and below the opening between the converging heads of the median nerve.
Even this operation, however, in two cases of femoral varix failed to effect more than a temporary cessation of the symptoms, although the ligatures were placed but a short distance from the communication.
In view of the healthy state of the vascular wall in most of these cases, the advantage of placing the ligatures as near to the wounded spot as can be managed without interference with the sac is afforded.
Men often wear, on one or both wrists, one or more vegetable ligatures plaited in one continuous piece.
By the use of ligatures and several artificial means he tried to confine a weapon in the hand of a recently dead body so that it would be as firmly held as by a contraction of the muscles during life.
The marks of very different constricting ligatures may be quite similar.
Besides the ropes used as ligatures in judicial hanging, almost every conceivable article that could be made into the semblance of a cord has been used by suicides; usually, however, some portion of the bedding or clothing.
The marks of ropes were always well defined, indented, and parchment-like; the marks of soft ligatures faint and reddish.
He seems to have been the first one to suggest that in metrorrhagia, with severe haemorrhage from the uterus, the bleeding might be stopped by putting ligatures around the limbs.
In about a month or six weeks the ligatures may be removed or slit with the knife to allow for the swelling stem, when, if the operation has been successful, the bud will be fresh and full, and the shield firmly united to the wood.
He went off, however, on a different line, and searched for some readier method of using metallic means of closing the blood vessels, being stimulated by the desire to abolish ligatures altogether.
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