The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ed; an eschar was formed, the bleeding stopped in an instant, and the patientgot well.^ In this case the ranine artery was wounded; a ligature could not be ap-plied, owing to the inaccessibility of the lesion, and compression was imprac-ticable from the softness and mobility of the tongue. In all similar cases ofhemorrhage from the mouth or throat, the actual cautery furnishes the bestmeans of arresting it. The cautery, too, is often employed \vith success tostop the flow of blood from sma
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ed; an eschar was formed, the bleeding stopped in an instant, and the patientgot well.^ In this case the ranine artery was wounded; a ligature could not be ap-plied, owing to the inaccessibility of the lesion, and compression was imprac-ticable from the softness and mobility of the tongue. In all similar cases ofhemorrhage from the mouth or throat, the actual cautery furnishes the bestmeans of arresting it. The cautery, too, is often employed \vith success tostop the flow of blood from small, deep-seated vessels lying beyond the reachof the ligature; also where there is free oozing from numerous points, suchas occasionally follows operations on the maxillary bones, operations for theremoval of piles, and sometimes excisions of the tonsils. The cautei^y-iron consists of a knob of that metal at the end of a long shaft,fastened to a convenient handle. The shape of its extremity may be globu-lar, or olivary, or button-like, etc., each form being adapted to some special Fig. 408. Fis. Bent cautery-irons. Blowpipe for heating the cautery-irons. condition requiring its use. (Figs. 408, 409.) It may be heated in the flameof a common spirit-lamp, or in that of a blowpii)e made for the purpose.(Fig. 410.) Cautery-ironS may be extemporized from stove-pokers, knife-blades, Traite des Maladies Chirurgicales, t. i. TREATMENT OF HEMORRHAGE BY CAUTERIZATION. 103 Fig. 411. knitting-needles, iron-wires, etc. They may easily be extemporized frompieces of telegraph wire by rolling up one end into a spiral form, filingthe other end to a point, and push-ing it into a piece of wood to serveas a handle. (Fig. 411.) In applying the cautery forhemorrhage, care must be takenthat the iron is heated only to adull red color; for, should it beraised to a bright red or whiteheat, it may defeat its own purposeby destroying the artery too exten-sively, or by bringing away theeschar stuck f
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