Lectures on the American eclectic system of surgery . s I believe,overbalance the good. Many who are in the constant habitof using and praising such articles, seem only to regard theimmediate object in view, paying little attention to the constitu-tional results, and still less to the future history of the remark will apply particularly to many of the boasted hos-pital trials and cures. ~No danger need be apprehended fromthe inflammation produced by the Irritating Plaster, in connec-tion with the other means we are in the habit of using. If, then, after a fair trial of the local and
Lectures on the American eclectic system of surgery . s I believe,overbalance the good. Many who are in the constant habitof using and praising such articles, seem only to regard theimmediate object in view, paying little attention to the constitu-tional results, and still less to the future history of the remark will apply particularly to many of the boasted hos-pital trials and cures. ~No danger need be apprehended fromthe inflammation produced by the Irritating Plaster, in connec-tion with the other means we are in the habit of using. If, then, after a fair trial of the local and general meanspointed out, you fail, as you may expect to do in many instances,and the tumor is so situated as to be conveniently operated upon,the knife is generally the best means you can resort to. Tumors can, however, in some cases, be removed by the liga-ture or caustic potash. The latter must be applied so as effectu-ally to destroy every portion of the organized mass, and causeit to slough off. For the former, two needles must be drawn Fig. through under the tumor at right angles and touching eachother, carrying each a double ligature. The loops being cut,leave four ligatures, or the eight-tailed ligature under the 206 TUMORS. tumor. The ends being tied in four knots, it perfectly stran-gulates every part of the tumor. [See Fig. 9.] The knife is far preferable to either of these means, whenthe patient can be brought to submit to it, as it causes less pain,and there is no danger, in this character of tumor, of a return,after it has once been wholly removed. Fibrous Tumors. These tumors, so called from their peculiar structure, appear,when cut into, to be composed of a uniform yellow or whitishsubstance, sometimes divided into lobes by septa of condensedcellular membrane. Few vessels penetrate them ; and, in somecases, none at all can be discovered. The substance of thefibrous tumor is always contained in a capsule of greater orless density, to which it adheres .very lo
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