The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . ase of sec-ondary haemorrhage from a vessel tied with catgut; and knows of two casesonly, quoted on pages 5 and 56 respectively, where catgut ligatures slippedor gave way. In both, very brittle catgut was used, and the knot was notsufficiently tightened on account of the fear of breakage. Therefore it maybe said that impropermaterial was improperlyapplied in both of theseinstances. In tying larger ves-sels it is very necessaryto grasp and withdrawthem from their sheathsfor i


The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . ase of sec-ondary haemorrhage from a vessel tied with catgut; and knows of two casesonly, quoted on pages 5 and 56 respectively, where catgut ligatures slippedor gave way. In both, very brittle catgut was used, and the knot was notsufficiently tightened on account of the fear of breakage. Therefore it maybe said that impropermaterial was improperlyapplied in both of theseinstances. In tying larger ves-sels it is very necessaryto grasp and withdrawthem from their sheathsfor inspection. Arteines will some-times be laterally nickedjust a little above thetransverse section, andthe ligature must be ap-plied above the lateralopening. Large veins must bealso well inspected, asit may happen that the lumen of a hastily tied vein may be only partially occluded by the ordinary artery forceps can not grasp at once the entire circumferenceof a principal vein, and the author has repeatedly seen only one half of thevein deligated in the shape of a dogs ear, the remainder of the vein con-.


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