The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . s, hard, and exceed-ingly painful to the touch ; it is presumed to be a tumour formedin the substance of a nerve. This nervous or painful tumourshould always be removed, and the pain and inconvenience willcease with the operation. PULSATING TUMOURS. Ncevi Materni, or small pulsating tumours, which are, in fact,aneurisms by anastomosis, are often found upon the head, face,and neck : they may either be congenital, or the result of someslight injury ; they are easily recognised by their red colo
The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . s, hard, and exceed-ingly painful to the touch ; it is presumed to be a tumour formedin the substance of a nerve. This nervous or painful tumourshould always be removed, and the pain and inconvenience willcease with the operation. PULSATING TUMOURS. Ncevi Materni, or small pulsating tumours, which are, in fact,aneurisms by anastomosis, are often found upon the head, face,and neck : they may either be congenital, or the result of someslight injury ; they are easily recognised by their red colour, anda thrilling pulsatory sensation communicated to the finger. Treatment.—The operation by ligature is the proper meansto remove these tumours. When the tumour is discovered, evenwhen not larger than the head of a pin, it ought to be operatedupon, by passing ligatures in the following manner : having twoneedles armed with stout ligatures, the ends of which should beof the same length, one of the needles should be entered into thesound integument at the side of the tumour an eighth of an inch. at least from its vascular edge, and forced beneath the tumour intothe sound structure, and brought out at the opposite side, at thesame distance from the diseased tissue as it was entered. Whilstthe first needle is thus under the tumour, the second is entered in PULSATING TUMOURS. Ill like manner, at right angles to the first, with which the tumour israised, and the second needle is passed under the first, touching is drawn through, and the loop cut, thus making two ligaturesof it. The first needle is also drawn through, and the loop are now four ligatures under the tumour, through the soundintegument and surrounding cellular tissue; the adjoining ends ofthese must be tied together by the reef-knot. The three firstcorners should be drawn moderately tight; the last knot must betied as tightly as possible, and thus completely strangulate thepart, which sloughs in a f
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