Surgical lectures, delivered in the theatre of the Westminster Hospital / by Richard Davy.

  • Davy, R. L.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Surgical lectures, delivered in the theatre of the Westminster Hospital / by Richard Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    made that the sinus-riddled tissue would permit. The operation was performed without the loss of any blood beyond what might reasonably be considered to come from the tissues below the point of compression, and not in all amounting to more than an ounce. The limb had, previously to amputation, been sub- jected to the use of Esmarch's bandage. The man died on the table, without there being, however, any very obvious cause for immediate death. The special object for reporting this case is to acknowledge the satisfactory and complete aid that was afforded by the use of the lever for compressing the common iliac during the operation—a procedure suggested by Mr. Kichard Davy in 1874 ('British Medical Journal,' May 18, 1878, p. 704), and made use of by him in 1876. One great advantage of the lever is, that it can be extem- porised out of so many ordinary and available articles of do- mestic furniture ; an ordinary walking-stick, or even the rail of a bedroom chair, would equally serve the purpose. It can be imagined that in very stout people Lister's tour- niquet might fail to accomplish its object; but, unless there should be a tight stricture of the rectum, or, as suggested by ]Mr. Bradley, a short mesocolon, preventing much lateral de- flection of the rectum, it is difficult to apprehend any other condition or circumstance which would render the lever in- applicable. MR. WILLIAM STOKES' PAPER, And Discussion thereon, at the Clinical Society op London, Friday, AjpHl 23, 1880. Amputation through the Hip-Joint.—Mr. William Stokes (Dublin) read notes of this case. Advantage was taken of the facilities afforded for controlling heemorrhage by means of Davy's rectal lever, and the best results were thereby obtained. B. Pemberton, aged 42, tall, muscular, and well-nourished, who had been successively a shoemaker, sexton, mason, and cabman, was admitted to the Richmond Surgical Hospital, Dublin,