. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, ibly passed into the lungs. Thisprocedure is strongly advocated by Fell, who has devisedan apparatus by which it may be satisfactorily accom-plished. Professor H. C. Wood has also made use offorced respiration in the resuscitation of animals with anapparatus somewhat similar to that devised by Fell, withgood results. Woods apparatus consists
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, ibly passed into the lungs. Thisprocedure is strongly advocated by Fell, who has devisedan apparatus by which it may be satisfactorily accom-plished. Professor H. C. Wood has also made use offorced respiration in the resuscitation of animals with anapparatus somewhat similar to that devised by Fell, withgood results. Woods apparatus consists of a pair of bel-lows, a few feet of rubber tubing and a face-mask of rubber, FORCED RESPIRATION. 207 and one or two intubation-tubes; the mask or intubation-tube is attached to one end of the rubber tube and the bellows to the other extremity. The mask is appliedover the mouth, or, if this is not used, the intubation-tubeis introduced into the larynx, and air is forced into thelungs by working the bellows. He also advises that inthe tubing a double metal tube be introduced, with theopenings so placed that their size can be so regulated byturning the outer tube that the operator can allow anyexcess of air thrown by the bellows to escape. Fig. Fells ajjparatus for forced respiration. The apparatus of Fell, which he has used in a numberof cases with good results, consists of a mouth-mask ortracheotomy-tube, and a tube connected with the air-con-trol valve, which is attached to an air-warming apparatus,which in turn is connected with a bellows by anothertube (Fig. 146). By means of this apparatus air is forcedinto the lungs, and allowed to escape, when the lungshave been expanded, by the elasticity of the lung tissueand the chest walls. Forced respiration has proved of value in cases ofnarcotic poisoning and other accidents in which death isproduced by paralysis of the respiratory centres. 208 MINOR SURGERY. Aspiration.—This procedure is adopted to remove fluidfrom a close
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