. Postoperative treatment; an epitome of the general management of postoperative care and treatment of surgical cases as practised by prominent American and European surgeons. Plate III Shows Complete Closure of the Transversalis Fascia, Con-nective Tissue, and Rectus Muscles by Interrupted Buried CatgutSutures. PLATE 4 t | 1 Plate IV Illustrates the Flnal Closure of the Incision. The silkworm-gut sutures are first carefully tied, after which the skin edges are care-fully closed by a continuous buttonhole stitch of fine horsehair. POSTOPERATIVE WO I NO SI IT RE, DRAINAGE, AND DRESSINGS. 2
. Postoperative treatment; an epitome of the general management of postoperative care and treatment of surgical cases as practised by prominent American and European surgeons. Plate III Shows Complete Closure of the Transversalis Fascia, Con-nective Tissue, and Rectus Muscles by Interrupted Buried CatgutSutures. PLATE 4 t | 1 Plate IV Illustrates the Flnal Closure of the Incision. The silkworm-gut sutures are first carefully tied, after which the skin edges are care-fully closed by a continuous buttonhole stitch of fine horsehair. POSTOPERATIVE WO I NO SI IT RE, DRAINAGE, AND DRESSINGS. 20. contains pus or blood, it is frequently important to irrigate thoroughly,but very gently, at the time of operation, with either hot normal saltsolution, 1 : 40 to 1: 20 carbolic acid solution, or weak sublimate solutionof 1:4ooo or 113000, if for any reason it is deemed preferable. Drainage.—Theoretically, a perfectly aseptic wound may be closedcompletely without drainage of any kind, and this practice may, in manyinstances, be followed by complete success. It can be accomplisheduniformly, however, only at the expense of a large amount of time devotedto the permanent checking of all hemorrhage, however slight, and byvery complete and time-consuming attention to the obliteration of alldead spaces. (Warren.) All
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