Virginia medical monthly . llinterwoven catgut ligatureto render the surface smoothThe mats retain their integrity, and donot warp. (See Fig. 2.) The threads aresecured by passing a needle, threaded withsilk suture, through the mat between thefirst and second inside catgut ribs, and fas-tened by returning the needle so as to in-close in the loop one or two of the threadsused for weaving the rings together. (SeeFig. 3.) Dr. Davis experimentations with apposi-tion catgut mats in intestinal anastomosishave been highly satisfactory. They arequite as absorbable as Sennsdecalcified bone plates; more
Virginia medical monthly . llinterwoven catgut ligatureto render the surface smoothThe mats retain their integrity, and donot warp. (See Fig. 2.) The threads aresecured by passing a needle, threaded withsilk suture, through the mat between thefirst and second inside catgut ribs, and fas-tened by returning the needle so as to in-close in the loop one or two of the threadsused for weaving the rings together. (SeeFig. 3.) Dr. Davis experimentations with apposi-tion catgut mats in intestinal anastomosishave been highly satisfactory. They arequite as absorbable as Sennsdecalcified bone plates; moreeasily and quickly made ; asreadily applied; and havethe advantages for securingthe threads for coaptationthat can never be attained inthe attachment of the coapta-tion threads to the boneplates. When the bone platesare not on hand for use, themaking of them, or sendingto distant cities for them,would be a serious delay. Asthe cat-gut mats can bequickly made of any desira- Fi&. 3. ble size, serious delays are Fig. MM, 168 EDITORIAL. Archives of Pediatrics. The April number of the Arcliivcs of Pediatrics comes to usincreased to eighty pages, and la especially interesting andattractive. It contains, besides the regular monthly contri-butions, articles by Jacobi on Therapeutics of Infancy andChildhood, and Forchheimer on the Medical Diseases ofthe Mouth, (either one of which is worth the years subscrip-tion) Townsend on Acute Lobar Pneumonia in Children/Seibert on Stomach Washing of Infants, an interestingarticle (illustrated) on the latest procedure in the treatmentof gastro-intestinal catarrh. Baruch on the Treatment ofIncontinence of Urine, Earle on Diphtheria in Children,Keating on Differential Diagnosis in the Fevers of Child-hood, and a large number of brief, practical abstracts fromthe German, French, and English medical journals of theday. Dr. Benjamin Blackford, Lately of Lynchburg, Ya., was elected, during April, Su-perintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum,
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