Operative surgery . nt should be carefullyavoided. The General Remarks. — Xon-absorbable sutures are regarded byBull and Coley, who have had alarge experience and an unusual op-portunity of observing the resultsof the work of others, as inferior tothe absorbable. Silk, silkworm gut,and silver wire esjjecially belong tothe former class, chromicized cat-gut and chromicized kangaroo ten-don to the latter. With this dis-crimination we are disposed to fact that delayed and faultyunion adds ten to twenty per centto the list of failures should leadthe operator to faithfully eliminatetheir c


Operative surgery . nt should be carefullyavoided. The General Remarks. — Xon-absorbable sutures are regarded byBull and Coley, who have had alarge experience and an unusual op-portunity of observing the resultsof the work of others, as inferior tothe absorbable. Silk, silkworm gut,and silver wire esjjecially belong tothe former class, chromicized cat-gut and chromicized kangaroo ten-don to the latter. With this dis-crimination we are disposed to fact that delayed and faultyunion adds ten to twenty per centto the list of failures should leadthe operator to faithfully eliminatetheir causes. The writer finds much advantageis gained by opening the sac earlyin the course of dissection near tothe upper end, sufficiently to admitthe index finger, which serves admi-rably as a guide and support duringthe complete separation. The After-treatment.—A stripof iodoform gauze placed uponclosed borders of the wound sur-mounted with dry aseptic gauze OIHKATloXS OX VISCKliA COXXKCTKI) WITH IKlilTuNyEUM. 935. Fiu. 1152.


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