. Text-book of operative surgery . II. Addition of a lougitudinal incision, to simplify the Operation : racket incision. ^TJ), Fig. leO. (Ti) Oblique lanceolate III. Anglos of the racket incision rounded off so as to allow of the incision being made morerapidly hy one sweep of the knife : lanceolate incision.^ (b) Evolution of the Methods of Amputation The oldest method of performing amputation of the limbs, Avhich as it were ofitself was enforced upon the older surgeons, is extremely simple. A circular incisionis carried down to the bone above the part of the limb to be amputated,
. Text-book of operative surgery . II. Addition of a lougitudinal incision, to simplify the Operation : racket incision. ^TJ), Fig. leO. (Ti) Oblique lanceolate III. Anglos of the racket incision rounded off so as to allow of the incision being made morerapidly hy one sweep of the knife : lanceolate incision.^ (b) Evolution of the Methods of Amputation The oldest method of performing amputation of the limbs, Avhich as it were ofitself was enforced upon the older surgeons, is extremely simple. A circular incisionis carried down to the bone above the part of the limb to be amputated, and the softparts are stripped off the bone, so that Avhen the latter is sawn across they can be ^ Formerly termed oval incision ; a pointed fignre, however, is not an oval. The term ovalincision would apply only to our oblique incision (Fig. 188). AMPUTATIONS AND DISARTIQULATIONS 531 made to cover the stump without any tension. If tlie bone cannot thus be slielledout through a transverse incision alone, a single, or two longitudinal incisions shouldbe added, also carried down to the bone (racket andrectangular Aap). This simplel^rocess lias in course of tinae unde
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