Arterial ligation for irremovable cancer of pelvic organs : technic adapted and amplified / by William Seaman Bainbridge.
- William Seaman Bainbridge
- Date:
- [1911]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Arterial ligation for irremovable cancer of pelvic organs : technic adapted and amplified / by William Seaman Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![‘O, [Reprint from The Woman’s Medical Journal, April, 1911.] ARI’ERIAL lilGATION FOR ^IRREMOVABLE CANCER OF PEIitMC '(^ANS—TECH- NIC ADAPTED.r^4^>AMPLlFIED.* • By William Seasian Bainbkidge, A.M., Sc.D., M.D., NEW YORK CITY. Surgeon, New York Skin and. Cancer Biospital; Associate Surgeon, Woman’s Hosiiital; Professor of Sur- gery, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Careful students of the cancer problem have doubtless observed the desultory manner in which many methods of treatment for this disease have been employed, and the tendency to periodic re- vival of interest in measures thus used. It has perhaps been noted, too, that while non-surgical methods of treatment are the more apt to be employed in the manner described, surgical pro- cedures, in a few instances, have received the same desultory attention, and have undergone the same periodic revival, each renewal of inter- est being marked by modifications of technic and amplilication of usefulness. Arterial ligation, particularly as applied to the treatment of cancer, presents a conspicuous illustration of this swinging of the pendulum of interest, as a brief review of the history of the subject will suffice to indicate. It is with the hope of once more reviving in- terest in this procedure as applied to the treat- ment of cancer of the pelvic organs that this contribution is offered. It is in no wise desired to leave the impression upon the reader that anything strikingly new or original is being presented. The purpose of the author is rather to present a modification and amplification of Read in part at the Sixth Annual Clinical Lecture on Malignant Disease, New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, April 20, 1910.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22432061_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
