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Title: A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eaton, Morton Monroe. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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es to some assistant. Avoidoperating in a large hospital, as the air can hardly be as purehere as in the small hospital or private house. OVARIOTOMY. 319 3. Temperature of the Room.—While the operation isprogressing the temperature of the apartment should be main-tained at 78° or 80° ; but as soon as the incision is closed anddressings applied, the temperature should be lowered to 68° or70°. The apartment should be quiet, large, and capable ofthe best of ventilation. The spray apparatus (see Plate XI)is recommended, which throws a spray into the room, impreg-nated generally with a small amount of carbolic acid. Thisdoes well; but, in case we have not the apparatus, a cup ofwater may be placed upon the stove, if the weather be cooland needing fire, and a tea-spoonful of Comp. tr. Iodine or Car-bol ac. added to it, that the vapor of Iodine or Acid may per-meate the air of the room. Suitable Dress.—The patient should be warmly dressedin flannel, with woolen stockings on the feet.
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Fig. No. 21.—Operating Table. Operating Table, Instruments, Etc.—A suitable operatingtable is convenient. It should be high enough, so that theoperator will have to bend over the patient very little,or none at all. It should be six feet long and about two 320 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. feet wide. It is a great convenience to have a little roomon the table not fully occupied by the patient. The tableshould be covered with India-rubber cloth, placed over a foldedquilt or pair of blankets, with hair pillow for the head. It iswell to have the India-rubber cloth covered with a flannelblanket, so folded as to wrap around the lower limbs and keepthem warm. The surgeon, before commencing the operation, will ob-serve that he is provided with eight or ten assorted sponges,well cleansed, and examined that they contain no small bitsof shell or rough points. It is well that they be moistenedwith a weak solution of carbolic acid two days before they areneeded. Three or four basins of water, bo

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