The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . Disarticulation at the hip (by the circular method;. 4. After the elastic ligature has been removed and all the bleedingarrested, a knife is pushed 5cm above the top of the great trochanteron to the head of the femur, and carried down over the middle of thegreat trochanter to the circular incision, dividing throughout the softparts down to the bone (Dieffenbach). 5. The operator seizes the stump of the femur with a strong pairof forceps, and while the edges of the vertical incision are separatedby an assistant, he stri
The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . Disarticulation at the hip (by the circular method;. 4. After the elastic ligature has been removed and all the bleedingarrested, a knife is pushed 5cm above the top of the great trochanteron to the head of the femur, and carried down over the middle of thegreat trochanter to the circular incision, dividing throughout the softparts down to the bone (Dieffenbach). 5. The operator seizes the stump of the femur with a strong pairof forceps, and while the edges of the vertical incision are separatedby an assistant, he strips the periosteum from the bone with the raspa-tory, till he comes to the attachments of the muscles; these must beseparated from the bone with a strong knife. 6. When the bone has been in this manner exposed up to thecapsule, the joint is opened as described above, and the head dislo-cated (fig. 422). The haemorrhage at this part of the operation isgenerally insignificant. 234 Fig. Fig. 423
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