Clinical surgical report for the year 1871 / by George Buchanan.

  • George Buchanan
Date:
[1872]
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Credit: Clinical surgical report for the year 1871 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where the patients are entitled to the little chance of success which remains. Besides these, death took place among the other patients in the wards as follows :— 1. J. S., aged 63. Compound fracture of tibia and fibula. Sloughing took place, and patient died of exhaustion. 2. H. M., aged 18. Admitted with some internal injuries, from having been bruised between the buffers of two railway waggons. Died on the 10th day, with symptoms of peri¬ tonitis. 3. D. M., aged 61. Admitted with his throat cut between the hyoid bone, and thyroid cartilage. The vocal apparatus was seen perfectly in the lower section of the wound—the vocal cords being clearly visible, and of a pale pink colour. Patient could swallow, and took some sustenance, but be¬ came delirious, and died on the 6tli day after. 4. S. W., aged 52, while tipsy, fell and broke three ribs, and sustained some internal injuries. Had extensive em¬ physema. Broncho-pneumonia supervened. He lived three weeks. 5. A. A., aged 54, while he lay at work on his side in a coalpit about three tons of coal fell on him. He sustained a fracture of the clavicle, and a very severe fracture of five or six ribs. Traumatic delirium soon came on, and he died four days after the accident. 6. W. C., aged 22, fell from the the top of a house, frac ¬ turing three ribs, causing extensive emphysema. He” died in delirium thirty-six hours after the accident. 7. P. M‘G., aged 18. Admitted with a fracture of right femur and left leg, both with wounds extending very close to the seat of fracture. They were treated antiseptically. On the 6th day symptoms of tetanus came on, which became rapidly acute, and he died in twenty-four hours. 8. P. M‘ L., aged 55. Sustained a double fracture of the right thigh, and a compound fracture of the patella. An attempt was made to save the limb by treating the compound fracture antis eptically, and great care was bestowed in having the fractures carefully adjusted on a