The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 93
s furthest point of exit, serves the pur- pose of a pulley; when it (the ligature) can be easily drawn backward or forward by traction on either end, without inflicting the slightest injury on the part, or pain on the patient. Having now given directions for passing the liga- tures, let us suppose… … the same way we replace the remaining silk ligatures with silver wire; both * The ligatures cannot always be introduced with as little trouble as in the case just supposed. For instance, when the loss of substance is very great, the fistula is so wide that the needle cannot be made to traverse both…
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