Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 662
nd operation. As illustrating the con-trast between the septic and antiseptic methods, let us consider the surgeryof our Civil War and compare with that of to-day, and we shall see the enor-mous differences in methods, and particularly in economy of limbs and organsas well as mortality. Hemorrhage.… … THE CENTURYS ADVANCE IN SURGERY 623 tion ago, by preventing suppuration, which is usually the cause of secondaryhemorrhage. The clumsy and complicated apparatus of former days for con-trolling hemorrhage has been superseded by the use of the Esmarch rubbertourniquet, the neat hemostatic forceps,…
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