The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 90
Mutter's Cases of Cleft Palate. [July 86 made a crescentric incision through the mucous membrane, and down in fact to the bone, commencing the incision nearly opposite the superior extremity of the opening and continuing it until it reached Fig. 10. … cylinder of soft buckskin. Making the incisions, detaching the lips of the wound and introducing the buckskin occupied but minute or two, giving the patient little or no pain, and causing no hemorrhage worth mentioning. The first step of the operation was thus completed and the patient ordered to…
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