setons

• “And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well,into the wounds with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.”

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• “The employment of setons constitutes a dependable method of treatment of shoulder atrophy, but because of the attendant suppurative process which inevitably results, this method is not popular with modern surgeons and is a last resort procedure.”

  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

• “In the failure of medical treatment, Gilbert directs the employment of surgical means, e.g., the use of setons, or, in suitable cases, extirpation of the goiter with the knife.”

  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

• “At twenty-seven, Wilson was lecturing ten, eleven, or more hours weekly, usually with setons or open blister-wounds upon him -- his”

  How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success

• “This effect has been ascribed to a derivative action, independent of any specific influence, and, indeed, similar to that of introducing setons in the dewlap.”

  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure

• “Put setons, or rowels in the dewlap, so as to have a dependent opening.”

  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure

• “And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well, into the wounds, with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.”

  The Journey to Turin. 1537

• “It sometimes follows castration, docking, the introduction of setons, inclusion of a nerve in a ligature, etc.”

  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

• “I refer to the use of setons, introduced through the tumor.”

  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

• “My opinion of setons is not favorable, but the actual cautery, by deep and fine firing, in points -- needle cauterization -- I believe to be the best mode of treatment, and especially when applied early.”

  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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