The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . versity Hospital, for cario-necrosis following frostbite, isshown in Fig. 751. The statistics of this operationhave been studied by Burrall,^ of New York, and hy Polaillon^ and Vincent,* of Paris. The last-namedsurgeon has collected 79 cases, to which may be added 6 additional (success-ful) cases recorded by McGuire and Poore, giving a total of 85, of which but5 are known to have terminated fatally. Total number of cases, 85. Recovered, with useful limb, 55, or per cent. Recovered, bu
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . versity Hospital, for cario-necrosis following frostbite, isshown in Fig. 751. The statistics of this operationhave been studied by Burrall,^ of New York, and hy Polaillon^ and Vincent,* of Paris. The last-namedsurgeon has collected 79 cases, to which may be added 6 additional (success-ful) cases recorded by McGuire and Poore, giving a total of 85, of which but5 are known to have terminated fatally. Total number of cases, 85. Recovered, with useful limb, 55, or per cent. Recovered, but without much use of limb, 5, or per cent. Amputated, 10, or per cent. Died, 5, or ) per cent. Result undetermined, 10, or per cent. Mortality of sub-periosteal cases (3 out of 23), 13 per cent. Excision of the Anterior Tarsal Bones.—The tarsal bones, other thanthe astragalus and os calcis, rarely admit of excision, their diseased condi-tions, when too far advanced for successful gouging, commonly necessitatingamputation. I have, however, myself, on a few occasions, removed one or. Result of partial excisioa of os calcis. The patient hadalso lost his toes by frostbite, but had, nevertheless, a veryuseful foot. De Iablation du calcaneum, etc. Paris, 1876. « Bellevue and Charity Hospital Reports, p. 91. New York, 1870. Archives Gen6rales de M6decine, Sept. etOct. 1869. * Op. cit. 532 EXCISIONS AND RESECTIONS. more bones of the tai-sus, the most extensive operation of this kind in myown experience having l)een the successful excision, in a youno; child, of thescaphoid, three cuncilornis, and the base of the first metatarsal. ])r. Conner,of Cincinnati, who is the chief apostle of tarsal excisions in this country, hastwice successfully removed the entire tarsus^ and a third operation of thesame character, also successful, has been reported by an English surgeon, M. Jones. No positive rules can be given for the excision of the anteriortarsal bones; the lin
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