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