The Method of Treating Scalp Wounds.

Otago Witness, Issue 1866, 26 August 1887, Page 36

The Method of Treating Scalp Wounds.

, A valuable surgical discovery, it is claimed, has been made by Dr Chaigneau, of a new method which he has introduced for the treatment of scalp wounds. The account is given as follows in a medical journal. The locality we presume to be New York City : — Assistant Police Surgeon Chaigneau is elated over a novel and valuable discovery which he has made in surgery. It is. a new method of treating scalp wounds, and is as simple as it is effective. When a peison suffering from a scalp wound applies at the Receiving Hospital for treatment, Dr Chaigneau does not shave the patient's head, nor stitch and bandage the wound. He merely gathers a small tuft of hair on either side of the wound and draws each in opposite directions and across each other, forming an angle directly over the mouth of the wound. The lips of the wound are thereby drawn as close together as if they were stitched. The next step is to tie the tufts of liair with a silk thread around the angle formed by the juncture. These knots of -hair -are made at intervals as far apart as the ordinary stitches in a wound. ' The tufts • are" kept - in ' position until the wound heals, and while this process is going on, any pus that may form can escape.' This discovery is of value, for. .the reason that the stitching of a^scalp wound is objectionable, in that it is likely to irritate the flesh, The fact that it does not necessi