Thoracic resection for tumors growing from the bony wall of the chest / F.W. Parham.

  • Parham, Frederick W.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Thoracic resection for tumors growing from the bony wall of the chest / F.W. Parham. 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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    were the manifestations of ijrofoiind sliw'k, threatening almost instant (liHsitlutioiJ U-fore our eyes, that I rexilvetl to acquaint niyself more thoroughly with the dangers of thoracic surgery antl to study the resources of our art for successfully dealing with su<'h emergencies as are born with the sudden, accidental, or intentional, opening of the pleural cavity. Soon after that my friend, Dr. Matas, chairman of the Surgical Sedion of the Louisiana Stite Medical Society, selecteil for his address the subject of thoracic surgery, and I agreed to open the discussion. Dr. Matas at once took up, with his usual vij^or and thoroujjhness, the investigation of the whole field of chest surgery. His work, soon to be pub- lished, presents in a most interesting and thorough manner a review of the astounding progress made in the ])ast twenty years in this important branch, and clearly indicates its glow- ing possibilities in the coming decades. The result of his labors lies i)efore me. I shall ^trive in this paper not to trench too much upon his ground, but shall rather try to provide the complement to his work, in so far as it relates to but one phase of thoracic surgery, as indicated in the title of this paper. Since the meeting of the State Medical Society, in May, 1898, when the discussion on chest-surgery took place, I have had another case, similar to the one above referred to; but, although i)oth hap[)ily recovered, the almost iusignilicaut dis- turbances during and after the operation in the last case were in such striking contrast with the .-tormy manifestations of my first operative attack that I cannot forbear here to express my deep gratitude to Fell and O'Dwyer, whose labors in the fields of intubation and forced respiration enabletl me in the second case to overcome the dangers of the first. I would not willingly discredit in any degree the original investiga- tions of Tuflier and Hallion and of CiuL'nu and Louguet, nor would I speak disparagingly of Doyen's mefhanical inge- nuity as displayed in his indi'pcndently devised apparatus ftu* artificial res|)iration; ImU it is only just to say that credit bflcmgs to Dr. l''fli, (if l>ii(T:il(t, for givIuL;- to snrmrv an
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