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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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inflammation, caries, and necro-sis, are now dealt with very differently from of old. The diseased structuresare now thoroughly removed; and the inflammation which at one time keptthe patient in misery and danger for a long time is subdued from the start. Osteotomy. — This term, which means the division of a bone, is generallyapplied to the correction of deformities, such as bow-legs. This operationfifty years ago was not frequently resorted to, and then only in severe cases,the milder ones being left alone or treated with braces, which at best coulddo little more than prevent increase in deformity. When the operation wasperformed on the bone, it was then divided, usually with a saw. The opera-tion nowadays for this condition is what is called subcutaneous osteotomy;that is, the wound made is only as large as the chisel used for severing thebone, about one half inch, and owing to our knowledge of microbes and ourmeans of destroying them and preventing their ravages, hundreds of legs
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622 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY are made straight every year which a generation ago could not have beensafely touched. Amputations. — The first successful amputation at the hip joint, for eitherinjury or disease, in the United States, was done in 1806 by Dr. Brasheur;the next was not accomplished until 1824. As late as 1882, the great Ameri-can surgeon, Gross, wrote in his System of Surgery: To no operationthat can be performed on the human body is the oft-repeated maxim, Ad ex-tremos morbus extrema remedia, more justly applicable than to amputation atthe hip joint. The operation may become necessary both on account ofdisease and accident; but it is of so formidable a nature and so fraught withdanger, that it should never be undertaken unless the patient has no otherchance of escape. The great risk which attends it is chiefly due to shock,loss of blood, suppuration, erysipelas, and pyaemia. . . . Under highly favor-able circumstances, much of the enormous wound may uni

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