. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. Fig. 1.^— Extreme genu valgum, taken from a photograph. The rightleg was at a right angle with the thigh when the limb was extended. and in every one in which the knee-joint was opened—some30 joints in all—a freely movable articulati
. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. Fig. 1.^— Extreme genu valgum, taken from a photograph. The rightleg was at a right angle with the thigh when the limb was extended. and in every one in which the knee-joint was opened—some30 joints in all—a freely movable articulation resulted. I may mention one of the cases in illustration—namely,that of a boy, set. 14, with extreme genu valgum (fig. 1). Theleft limb I straightened by means of Ogstons division of theinternal condyle. In the right, the deformity was more pro-nounced ; and this operation only succeeded in very partially 12 ANTISEPTIC SURGERY. removing it. I then divided in succession, on the outerside of the limb, the biceps tendon, the ilio-tibial band, andthe external lateral ligament. Air freely entered the joint,already filled with blood and bone-dust. I used a great. Fig. 2.— Eesult of the operations. The right upper and lover limbsare somewhat shorter than those of the opposite side. The boy is extraordi-narily developed in the upper half of his body. deal of force in my efforts to straighten the limb, but, sogreat was the previous deformity, without much , after all this violence done to the greatest arti-culation in the body, the patient recovered without any illresult, even in the most trifling degree. Subsequently Idivided the right femur just above the condyles, and theboy now possesses two almost straight limbs and two good COMPOUND FRACTURE. 13 movable knee-joints. The woodcuts (figs. 1 and 2) representhis condition before and after operation. In regard to com/pound fractures, our antiseptic practiceis not yet very extensive; but it has proved, I thi
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