. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . Fig. 25.—Suhgicaiv Treatment of Certain Dislocations. /shows the reduotion of the ankle-bone. J7 shows the extension and im-pulsion of the spina dorsi dislocated externally. (From The Chi/rurgeona Store-house, by Johannes Scultetus, 107-4.) 182 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. parts, favored operating for strangulated hernia, andemployed the trephine zealously. The first recordedoperation for external urethrotomy f
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . Fig. 25.—Suhgicaiv Treatment of Certain Dislocations. /shows the reduotion of the ankle-bone. J7 shows the extension and im-pulsion of the spina dorsi dislocated externally. (From The Chi/rurgeona Store-house, by Johannes Scultetus, 107-4.) 182 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. parts, favored operating for strangulated hernia, andemployed the trephine zealously. The first recordedoperation for external urethrotomy for the relief of strictureis mentioned in Wisemans writings. There were also William Cowper (1666-1709), afamous anatomist and surgeon ; and Woolhouse, a famous,but ignorant, itinerant oculist. Sir Christopher Wren,architect of St. Pauls, was the first who devoted attentionto injecting medicine into the veins,—a subject studiedagain much later and recently once more taken up. Hisexample (in 1667) was followed by otliers, whose experi-ments demonstrated, as we know to-day, that the effectswhich follow the intravenous administration of drugs arethe same as follow administration by
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