Modern surgery, general and operative . Fig. 117.—Fordssuture: A square knot, a Fig. 118.—Fords suture: Showing two single knot, a double or friction knot, and the square knots, a single knot, and the method first method of passing the needle to tie a of completing a square knot,single knot immediately. six to eight days. In a large wound one-half the stitches are removed at onesitting, and in a day or two the rest are removed. Stitches are removedpromptly if they begin to cut out or if infection occurs. The old continued suture is rarely used for skin-wounds at the presenttime. This suture is
Modern surgery, general and operative . Fig. 117.—Fordssuture: A square knot, a Fig. 118.—Fords suture: Showing two single knot, a double or friction knot, and the square knots, a single knot, and the method first method of passing the needle to tie a of completing a square knot,single knot immediately. six to eight days. In a large wound one-half the stitches are removed at onesitting, and in a day or two the rest are removed. Stitches are removedpromptly if they begin to cut out or if infection occurs. The old continued suture is rarely used for skin-wounds at the presenttime. This suture is employed to suture the dura after division, to suturethe two layers of pleura together before an abscess of the lung is opened, to Wounds of Mucous Membranes 299 suture the peritoneum after laparotomy, and to suture the mucous membraneafter certain operations upon the stomach. The continuous suture is shown inFig. 116. _A continuous suture knotted after each emergence was devised byFord. It is very useful in suturing the parietal
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