The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 87
When the inflammation runs high sloughing is almost sure to take place, the ligatures cut out, and the operation almost to a certainty fails, either entirely or in part. As soon as the slough is perceived it should be vigorously attacked by all the remedies calculated to arrest this action. I know… … of the tissue in the vicinity being more firm than usual, and consequently less yielding, or owing to the large size of the fissure, which requires for its occlusion more membrane than the adjacent parts could well supply, the new velum is so rigid and tense as scarcely to possess motion, and hence…
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