Aneurysms of the aorta : with especial reference to their position, direction and effects : being an exercise for an act for the degree of M.B. in the University of Cambridge / by Oswald Browne.

  • Browne, Oswald Auchinleck, 1855-1908.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Aneurysms of the aorta : with especial reference to their position, direction and effects : being an exercise for an act for the degree of M.B. in the University of Cambridge / by Oswald Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And to them has followed an age of morbid anatomy, of disease studied, scalpel in hand, by the light of its effects; an age of almost daily advance in the science of physic, as opinions and conjecturings have been confirmed, corrected or laid aside by carefully observed and accurately recorded facts concerning the processes and results of disease. And, on aneurysms of the aorta as on almost every result of disease, observations and writings are multiplied past record ; so that I feel, in writing, almost as if apology were due for treading again on so well worn a track, and for seeking further to add to an ah-eady so long array of recorded cases of the disease Q). Yet it is in the fact that I contribute an analysis of careful post mortem records of 88 unpulilished cases, that my apology consists, for here assuredly it is true that even in things alike there is diversity, and those that do seem to accord do manifestly disagree (-). The remarks that follow are based upon an analysis of all cases of aneurysm of the aorta (in any of its parts) dying in St. Bartholomew's Hospital during the last 17 years, upon whom an examination was made after death, and its results carefully recorded. They number 88 in all, and bear date from October, ] 867, when such records began there first to be systematically made and kept, and include more than one case examined within the last few weeks (^). With a view to ascertaining how far the aorta is the artery most frequently involved in this disease, and the degree of its relative incidence upon other arteries of the body, I have drawn up a table (appended) of all cases of aneurysm, of what- ever artery, that have been under treatment in the iiospital during the years now under consideration. (^) Sibiion analyzed liisitories of 594 cases, and 296 museum specimens. {'■') Keligio metlici, Sir T. Browne, Part II. (') Last observation, Nov. 1884, Vol. xi., p. 171.