. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. ced in the wire cuirass (Fig. 21);great stress being laid upon the importanceof careful dressing, after-treatment, and nurs-ing. Dr. Sayre remarked, as he stood thechild in the cuirass against the side of the amphitheatre, nowthis child is ready for transportation. Professor Lister, of Edinburgh, being called upon by Profes-sor Pancoast to address the company, spoke to the followingeffect: We must all regard it as an extremely fortunate cir-cumstance that Dr. Sayre has had at his disposal a series ofcases so well adapted for illustrating his admir
. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. ced in the wire cuirass (Fig. 21);great stress being laid upon the importanceof careful dressing, after-treatment, and nurs-ing. Dr. Sayre remarked, as he stood thechild in the cuirass against the side of the amphitheatre, nowthis child is ready for transportation. Professor Lister, of Edinburgh, being called upon by Profes-sor Pancoast to address the company, spoke to the followingeffect: We must all regard it as an extremely fortunate cir-cumstance that Dr. Sayre has had at his disposal a series ofcases so well adapted for illustrating his admirable diagnosisand treatment of the various stages of hip-joint disease. Asthese subjects are to be brought before the Surgical Section ofthe Congress this afternoon, it is needless for me to allude tothem in detail on the present occasion, but I can not refrainfrom expressing the admiration which I feel in common, I amsure, with all present at the mode of execution and the imme-diate results of the excision of the hip-joint which we have just. 556 MOEBUS COXARIUS. witnessed. Dr. Sayre, indeed, has made no attempt at display,and he emphatically endorsed a remark of mine that the daysof such exhibitions in surgery were over. For when pain andshock are prevented by anaesthetics, and when all loss of bloodis avoided, whether by the use of a tourniquet, or, as in thisinstance, by the skillful manner in which the incisions areplanned and carried out, mere rapidity of operating becomes amatter of absolute indifference, except that the work is probablysomewhat better done if a little more time is spent upon , gentlemen, we have seen an extremely skillfulperformance, not only as regards the operation, but also in theapplication of the highly ingenious apparatus used for theafter-treatment. The manner in which the sound leg, firmlyfixed upon the cuirass, is made to serve as a perfectly efficientmeans of counter-extension, is indeed beautiful; and to see thatboy, who was bu
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