| Description | Teaching notes on following subjects:
Inflammation - including nature of inflammation; causes of inflammation; terminations of inflammation; symptoms of inflammation; forms of febrile action [under 'inflation' includes the use of leeches as treatment];
scrofula & tubercle - including 1. skin & mucous membranes; 2. glands (type); 3. bones; 4. joints; 5. serous membranes; 6. skin & mucous membranes;
haemorrhage - including arterial haemorrhage; venous haemorrhage; symptoms of haemorrhage; effect of ligaturing vessel; treatment of haemorrhage; [haemophilia and umbilical haemorrhage in infants scored out, ?presumably by Ogston];
operations & anasthesia - 1. seasons of year for operations; 2. health of patient; 3. previous regimen; 4. antiseptic preparation; 5. dieting for anaesthetics; 6. artificial anaemia; 7. anaesthesia [1. local; 2. general; including ?the number of deaths from various anaesthetics, such as chloroform and ether. Page 25 annotated, 'Principal Pirie died 3. nov. no lectures held on 4th Nov. 85'. Administration of chloroform; chloroform death; administration of ether; combined anaesthetics; [8. special dangers during operations and 9. special methods of operating in vascular regions scored out];
wounds [extensive notes] - incised wounds [includes a copy of W. Carmichael [?William Carmichael McIntosh], 'The Treatment of Incised Wounds - Four Suggestions - The Needle Superseded' reprinted from 'Medical Reprints' (15 December 1890), 165]; wound dressings; punctured wound; contused wounds & contusions; lacerated wounds; wounds from firearms [with annotation 'rewrite all this'];
bites & poisoned inoculations - bites of insects; stings of insects; scorpion sting; snake bite; poisoned arrow wounds [includes part of a cutting with ripped edges relating to Colonel Woodthorpe's 'Aka Expedition of 1883'. Highlighted part of cutting, which describes the tribe that inhabited the hills north of Assam, says, '... The barbs of the arrows are dipped in aconite, and are so treated that, when any attempt is made to pluck out the arrow, the barb breaks off and remains in the wound. The poison is so deadly, that even a buffalo usually falls, after running a few yards, when he has been struck by one ...']; poisoned inoculations: A. dissection wound; B. whitlow; C. malignant phlegmon of face; D. splenic fever; E. equinia (glanders); F. carbuncle; G. boil;
hydrophobia - disease in dog; inoculation in man;
tetanus;
deliruim tremens;
diphtheria;
scurvy;
general fractures [extensive notes] - including, types of force; [peculiarities of fracture and causation of fracture scored out]; symptoms of fracture;, repair of fractures; final result of repair; delayed union & pseudarthrosis; angular union; ankylosis of joints after fracture; [general on treatment of fractures; compound fractures and simple fractures scored out];
special fractures - facial bones; thorax; ribs [mentions 'rib fractures in insane']; fractures of clavicle; fractures of scapula; coraeoid; fractures of humerus; fractures of ulna; fractures of radius; colles fracture; fractures of hand; fractures of the pelvis; complications with rupture of bladder & urethra; fractures of femur [continued in volume II].
Inside its front cover, the volume is entitled 'Surgery Class 1885 - 6: 86 - 87 volume I'. |