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Title: Postoperative treatment; an epitome of the general management of postoperative care and treatment of surgical cases as practised by prominent American and European surgeons
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Morse, Nathan Clark. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Operations, Surgical. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ps should be made so that the cicatrixshould come upon the dorsum of the hand with the least possible inter-ference with the palm. Treatment.—The wounds after these operations as a rule heal well,but are often very painful. As the skin of palmar flaps is usually thickand stiff, the sutures should be well applied, and should not be too soonremoved. Silkworm-gut sutures are well adapted for these operations.The hand should be kept elevated, and never allowed to hang down,and care must be taken that too tight bandages are not applied aboutthe wrist. In the larger operations, especially when a palmar flap has been cut,the hand should be supported upon a splint in order to arrest the move-ments of the wrist. As a rule, no drainage-tube is required, a smallpiece of the selvage of iodoform gauze, or a few strands of horsehair or WIIH IWTIONS. 407 of silkworm-gut, being usually all that is necessary; hut when the meta-carpus is concerned, and when the tissues of the palm have been lacerated
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