Early history of the operation of ligature of the primitive carotid artery : with a report of forty-eight unpublished cases : and a summary of forty-four cases, with remarks, by Valentine Mott / by James R. Wood.
- James Rushmore Wood
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Early history of the operation of ligature of the primitive carotid artery : with a report of forty-eight unpublished cases : and a summary of forty-four cases, with remarks, by Valentine Mott / by James R. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![except at the point of the ligature. No haemorrhage since the operation ; tumor very much diminished on cheek and orbit; skin corrugated considerably over tumor on cheek, and much darker than previous to the operation, at which time it was of almost a crimson color. The patient continued to do well. March 11.—Nine days after the operation, the ligature was found loose in the wound and removed. Nothing transpired worthy of note after this date, except gradual decrease of the tumor for some months after the operation. I saw the child some three years after the operation, there had been but little change in the size of the tumor, but the integuments were much more natural in their color and the tumor much firmer. About that time, his parents removed to the West, since which I have heard nothing from him. Case 4.—Epilepsy—Ligature of Carotid with MarJced Relief.— On the 12th of August, 1S43, I was requested to visit Michael Logan, residing in Madison Court, Madison Street. He was born in Ireland; aet. 37 years; single; bricklayer by occupation. I found him just recovering from a convulsion, decidedly epileptic in its character: he had been subject to these fits for the last eight years. At first, they occurred once in three or four months, but in the course of a year they returned about once a month, sometimes more and some- times less time intervening between them. For the last eighteen months they had occurred, on an average, once in twenty-four hours, and sometimes as often as three times in a single day. I was informed that he had been under the i care of Dr. Morris M. Rogers, David L. Rogers, the late Di\ Willett, and many other medical gentlemen; but of late, little had been done in the way of indication, except in the use of nostrums, which he had used freely ; was also informed by ] his brother that, until within the last three or four years, he had been addicted to self-pollution, but that he believed he ' was not now, nor had he been for some years, as lie had 1 been under the supervision of his friends, and nothing of the 1 kind had been discovered. Ills face was very much flushed; eyes suffused, the lids swollen ; and he complained of great i pain in the head. I merely prescribed quiet and rest at this < visit. f August 13.—I saw him in the morning, and found his £ face flushed, eyes suffused and the lids swollen, almost as much as on the day previous; lip complained of great pain c in the head, and added that that was nothing new, that pain 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22327721_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
