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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE HISTORY OF A CASE OF ANEURISM OF THE POPLITEAL ARTERY, IN WHICH A SEW METHOD OF APPLYING THE LIGATURE WAS PRACTISED. WITH OBSERVATIONS. In the ingenious experiments performed by Dr. Jones with the ligature on the arteries of dogs and horses, it appears that he com* pletely succeeded in obliterating the canals of these vessels, by the consequences resulting from the mere rupture of their internal coats, and almost instantly removing the ligature, by which the la?sion was produced, -i This circumstance appeared to suggest a valuable improvement in the mode of tying arteries for the cure of aneurism, and to justify a trial of it on the human subject. The subsequent experiments, also, of Mr. Travers on the arteries of other quadrupeds with similar views, fully corroborate, as I am credibly informed *, the deductions and results of Dr. Jones's experiments on this curious and highly interesting subject: and to the above facts, I may be permitted to subjoin the experiments performed by myself on the brachial arteries of two dogs with corresponding effects, as far back as the year 1800, when I was house-surgeon to the Dumfries and Galloway Infirmary f. Notwithstanding the improvements that have recently been made in this department of surgery, secondary hemorrhage is an occurrence too frequent and dreadful, to allow * See Mr. Travers's valuable papers on this subject, published in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, since my case occurred, and these remarks were written. •f These latter experiments were performed by the desire and under the directions of my deceased friend Mr. Alex. Copland, senior surgeon to that institution; and the animals which were the subjects of them, were destroyed three weeks afterwards. The ligatures were removed immediately after t...
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