Notes on the surgical treatment of aortic aneurism : being in part a reprint of some papers in the Lancet on the same subject published in the years 1869 and 1872 / by John Cockle.

Date:
1877
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Credit: Notes on the surgical treatment of aortic aneurism : being in part a reprint of some papers in the Lancet on the same subject published in the years 1869 and 1872 / by John Cockle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    must not be understood as wishing in any way to underrate the general value of the thoroughly good and able work of the Italian physician ; with more perfect instruments of precision, more satisfactory results may be yet obtained and other measures superseded. To return to my more immediate subject matter, if the plan I advocate is really to constitute an addition to our knowledge, it takes its root in the experience of the past, and it is from this experience that the material is to be selected to furnish the proof sought. The question is one of pure observation, and quite independent of any a priori reasoning. The great point to determine (considering the gravity of the issue involved) is whether the successive links in the chain of evidence are sufficiently strong to warrant the con- clusion—in other terms, whether the facts are adequate. Such as they are, I now submit them. They are, however, weighted with the consciousness of the im- pex-fect manner in which I have executed this portion of my task. This defect has arisen in part from the restriction of time, but mostly from the neglected mention of the condition of the arteiy in many of those recorded cases in which either a cure took place or the aortic sac was found unruptured and filled with lami- nated clot. The cases may be divided into those in which the occlusion of the artery, coinciding with the formation of laminated clot, has been effected by a natural pro- cess, and into those in which such conjunction has been the result of an artificial process. A further subdivision niay be made of the first class into cases where the
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