The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . Fig. 101.—Sutured wound after amputation of breast. Counter-incision through latissimus for purposes of drainage. The vessels and nerves which traverse the adipose tissues can be distinctly-felt and seen as they are successively approached. If necessary the longthoracic artery and vein, and sometimes the subscapular vessels, should be. Fio. 102.—Completed dressing after breast amputation. taken up and cut between two forceps. The nerves ought to be the disse
The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . Fig. 101.—Sutured wound after amputation of breast. Counter-incision through latissimus for purposes of drainage. The vessels and nerves which traverse the adipose tissues can be distinctly-felt and seen as they are successively approached. If necessary the longthoracic artery and vein, and sometimes the subscapular vessels, should be. Fio. 102.—Completed dressing after breast amputation. taken up and cut between two forceps. The nerves ought to be the dissection of the axillary contents, the breast serves as a suitablehandle. Breast and axillary contents are removed in one mass. Thus theintervening lymphatic ducts are certainly taken away together with the SPECIAL APPLICATION OP THE ASEPTIC METHOD. 118 mammary gland and the axillary lymphatic After due irrigation,a counter-incision is made on the external aspect of the latissimus-dorsimuscle. The knife should divide the skin and fascia only ; then a dressing-forceps is thrust through the muscle into the most dependent part of theaxillary wound, when it is made to grasp the end of a stout drainage-tube,which is drawn out through the counter-incision, to be transfixed with asafety-pin and clipped off even with the skin. After this the pectoral wound is united. Listers button suture, or aquilled suture, or any other of the known forms of re
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