New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth.
- Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
- Date:
- 1845-1847
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Credit: New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX. Having commenced the publication of this work two years since, I am now obliged to insert some facts which it was impossible for me to mention at the time in their proper place. These facts are of two orders, or form two series. Some have been communicated to me directly; the others already constitute a part of the domain of science. Article I.—Facts Communicated. §1. In the note of M. V. Mott, which gives a summary of what I have communicated from him in the text, I see that this skilful professor has practised the ligature of the arteria innominata once, of the com- mon iliac once, of the external iliac six times, of the internal iliac once, of the femoral artery forty-nine times, of the right subclavian within the scaleni muscles, once, of the right and left subclavian without the scaleni muscles, three [now four] times, of the primitive carotid, nineteen times, [now twenty,] and of the external carotid, twice. He has amputated [for osteo-sarcoma] the lower jaw nine times, two of which operations were at the temporo-maxillary ar- ticulation, and the upper jaw fourteen [sixteen] times. He has twice practised tracheotomy in the case of croup, [and a number of times for the removal of foreign bodies,] four [nine] times the section of the sterno-mastoid muscle to relieve torticollis, once the extirpa- tion of a thyroid gland which weighed five pounds two ounces, once [several times] the ligature of the thyroid arteries, with the view of causing atrophy of a goitre, once the exsection of the clavi- cle, several times the operation for empyema, once gastrotomy, one hundred and six times the operation for hydrocele with injection of sulphate of zinc, twice the exsection of the rectum, twice [sev- eral times] the extraction of loose bodies in the articulation of the knee-joint, many times the excision of false articulations, and once amputation at the hip-joint, and at the shoulder and the wrist, [four times operated successfully for false articulations of the thigh by the seton, several times successfully on the tibia and other bones by the same mode, once* successfully the restoration of an imper- forate vagina to all its functions, in thirteen cases effected the perfect restoration of the functions of the lower jaw after years of *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21036767_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
