New elements of operative surgery . also for certain cases of diseases of the urethra. Sometimes thesemeches are drawn by means of the thread which is tied to the loop—more frequently they are introduced by means of the porte-meche. B. The linen meche is made with a strip of pliable linen, half-worn, ravelled on the edges, so as to leave abreadth of two to four lines of fringe, and a middleand unaltered portion of three to six lines wide, () This meche, whose edges are very pliant, is em-ployed under the form of a seton in a great numberof cases. When one extremity only is to rest in th
New elements of operative surgery . also for certain cases of diseases of the urethra. Sometimes thesemeches are drawn by means of the thread which is tied to the loop—more frequently they are introduced by means of the porte-meche. B. The linen meche is made with a strip of pliable linen, half-worn, ravelled on the edges, so as to leave abreadth of two to four lines of fringe, and a middleand unaltered portion of three to six lines wide, () This meche, whose edges are very pliant, is em-ployed under the form of a seton in a great numberof cases. When one extremity only is to rest in the(Fig. 39.) interior of a cavity, whether that cavity is natural or the effect of disease, it is oftenunnecessary to ravel the edges. C. The cotton meche is nothing else thana cord of threads of the same kind, arrangedin the manner of wicks for bougie or othercandles, and for small oil lamps, (Fig. 39.) Wefind them, therefore, all prepared in com-merce, and their use is the same as that ofthe preceding. Article V.—Scraped Though it is taken from linen, either of flax or hemp, thescraped lint differs nevertheless in essential particularsfrom ordinary lint. Deprived of threads and every kind of filament, 14 106 NEW ELEMENTS OF OPERATIVE SURGERY. it is in reality composed only of down or hairs. So also is it veryabsorbent, and infinitely more pliant than ordinary lint. Appliedto wounds, it becomes speedily glued to them, and tends to drythem much more than the other kind. For this reason, it evidentlyirritates the edges of the womid, and cannot be used but in a smallnumber of cases, as, for example, for suppurating surfaces in flabbytissues of pale color. Article VI.—English Lint. For a long time the surgeons of England and of many northerncountries have substituted for our lint {charpie) a particular tissue,which they call lint, (patent lint, Fig. 40.) and which,according to them, they have had much reason toextol. This tissue, in some respects resemblingwadding, (ou
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