CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
HISTORICAL
Historical [1]
CHAPTER II
REQUIREMENTS FOR OPERATING
The operating room: The walls; The floors; Skylight; Disinfection; Instrument cabinet; Operating table; Instrument table; Irrigator—Care of instruments—Preparation of the surgeon and assistants: Care of the hands; Gowns—Preparing the patient: General preparation; Preparation of the operative field [9]
CHAPTER III
REQUIREMENTS DURING OPERATION
Sponges and sponging—Sterilization of dressings: Wallace sterilizer; Sprague sterilizer; Sterilizing plant; Dressing cases; Waste cans—Sutures and sterilization: Silkworm gut and silk; Catgut [22]
CHAPTER IV
PREFERRED ANTISEPTICS
Antiseptic solutions—Antiseptic powders [34]
CHAPTER V
WOUND DRESSINGS
Sutured wounds—Sutureless coaptation—Granulation—Changing dressings—Wounds of the mucous membrane—Pedunculated flaps—Foreign bodies [43]
CHAPTER VI
SECONDARY ANTISEPSIS
Septicemia following wound infection—Gangrene—Erysipelatous infection [52]
CHAPTER VII
ANESTHETICS
General anesthesia: Preparation for general anesthesia; Chloroform; Ether; Combined anesthesia; Nitrous oxid; Ethyl bromid; Ethyl chlorid—Local anesthesia: Ethyl chlorid; Cocain; Beta eucain; Liquid air; Stovain [58]
CHAPTER VIII
PRINCIPLES OF PLASTIC SURGERY
Incisions—Sutures—Needles—Needle holders—Methods in plastic operations: Stretching method; Sliding method; Twisting method; Implantation of pedunculated flaps by bridging; Transplantation of nonpedunculated flaps or skin-grafting; Autodermic skin-grafting; Heterodermic skin-grafting; Zoödermic skin-grafting—Mucous-membrane-grafting—Bone-grafting—Hair-transplantation [76]
CHAPTER IX
BLEPHAROPLASTY
Ectropion: Partial ectropion; Complete ectropion; Ectropion of both lids—Epicanthus—Canthoplasty—Ptosis—Ankyloblepharon—Wrinkled eyelids—Xanthelasma palpebrarum [103]
CHAPTER X
OTOPLASTY
Restoration of the auricle—Auricular protheses—Coloboma—Malformation of the lobule: Enlargement of the lobule; Attachment of the lobe—Malformation of the auricle: Microtia—Auricular Appendages—Polyotia—Malposition of the auricle [120]
CHAPTER XI
CHEILOPLASTY
Harelip: Classification of harelip deformities; The operative correction of harelip; Of unilateral labial cleft; Of congenital bilateral labial cleft; Post-operative treatment of harelip—Superior cheiloplasty: Classification of deformities of the upper lip; Operative correction of deformities of the upper lip—Inferior cheiloplasty—Labial deficiency—Labial ectropion—Labial entropion—Vermilion deficiency [145]
CHAPTER XII
STOMATOPLASTY
The correction of macrostoma—The correction of microstoma [192]
CHAPTER XIII
MELOPLASTY
Small and medium defects—Large defects—Employment of protheses [198]
CHAPTER XIV
SUBCUTANEOUS HYDROCARBON PROTHESES
Indications—Precautions—The advantage of the method—Untoward results: Intoxication; Reaction; Infection; Necrosis; Sloughing; Sloughing due to pressure; Subinjection; Hyperinjection; Air embolism; Paraffin embolism; Primary diffusion or extension of paraffin; Interference with muscular action of the wings of the nose; Escape of paraffin after withdrawal of needle; Solidification of paraffin in needle; Absorption or disintegration of the paraffin; The difficulty of procuring paraffin with proper melting point; Hypersensitiveness of skin; Redness of the skin; Secondary diffusion of the injected mass; Hyperplasia of the connective tissue following the organization of injected matter; Yellow appearance and thickening of the skin after organization of the injected mass has taken place; The breaking down of tissue and resultant abscess due to the pressure of the injected mass upon the adjacent tissue after the injection has become organized—The proper instruments for the subcutaneous injection of hydrocarbon protheses—Preparation of the site of operation—Preparation of the instruments for operation—The practical technique—Specific classification for the employment and indication of hydrocarbon protheses about the face—Specific classification for the employment and indication of hydrocarbon protheses about the shoulders, etc.—Specific technique for the correction of regional deformities about the face: Transverse depressions; Deficient or receding forehead; Unilateral deficiency; Interciliary furrow; Temporal muscular deficiency; Deformities of the nose; Deformities about the mouth; Deformities about the cheeks; Deformities about the orbit; Deformities about the chin; Deformities about the ear—Specific technique for the correction of deformities about the shoulders [209]
CHAPTER XV
RHINOPLASTY
The causes of nasal destruction—Classification of deformities—Surgical technique—Protheses—Nasal replanting—Nasal transplanting—Total rhinoplasty: Pedunculated flap method; The Indian or Hindu method; The French method; The Italian method; The combined flap method; Organic support of nasal flaps; Periostitic supports; Osteoperiostitic supports; Cartilaginous support of flap—Partial rhinoplasty; Restoration of base of nose; Restoration of lobule and alæ; Restoration of the alæ; Restoration of nasal lobule; Restoration of subseptum [339]
CHAPTER XVI
COSMETIC RHINOPLASTY
Angular nasal deformity—Correction of elevated lobule—Correction of bulbous lobule—Angular excision to correct lobule—Correction of malformations about nasal lobule—Deficiency of nasal lobule—Correction of widened base of nose—Reduction of thickness of alæ—Correction of nasal deviation—Undue prominence of nasal process of the superior maxillary [448]
CHAPTER XVII
ELECTROLYSIS IN DERMATOLOGY
The electric battery—The voltage or electromotive force—Cell selector—Milliampèremeter—The electric current—Portable batteries—Electrodes—Removal of superfluous hair—Removal of moles or other facial growths—Telangiectasis—Removal of nævi—Removal of tattoo marks—The treatment of scars [470]
CHAPTER XVIII
CASE RECORDING METHODS
Photographs—Stencil record—The rubber stamp—The plaster cast—Preparation of photographs [491]