Two interesting surgical cases / by Claudius H. Mastin.

  • Claudius H. Mastin
Date:
1895
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    X [Reprinted fr$m The MedicaL News. Jmlte 29, 1895.] /tV ” I 1 /5? £ //£^ R T } GUNSHOT-WO BY CLAUDIUS H. MASTIN, M.D., LL.D. Univ. PENNA. OF MOBILE. ALA. Surgical literature is not meager in details relating to wounds of the heart, and although much has been written, and many interesting cases have been placed upon record in the various journals, as well as in the standard surgical publications, the subject is one of especial interest, and every case presenting itself is worthy of note. No apology therefore appears necessary for offering to the Association the clinical history of a case that came under my observation in September, 1894, and which has been carefully examined and watched through its entire course. I am indebted to Dr. C. H. Mastin, Jr., for accurate notes of the case, from a few hours after the reception of the wound, through convalescence up to the date of discharge from observation. I shall not weary the Association with an extended dissertation upon wounds of the heart, nor consume the time of its Fellows by skimming over a sea of statistics or ballooning amid clouds of doubt and speculation to establish the correctness of my diagnosis in this case, but will simply lay before you “a plain unvarnished statement,’ and leave you to form your conclusions. The main points to be established in making clear a diagnosis of such a wound are, first, accurate visceral localization, and, secondly, the symptoms that follow the