Ligations for the cure of aneurism / by L.C. Lane.

  • Levi Cooper Lane
Date:
[1883]
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Credit: Ligations for the cure of aneurism / by L.C. Lane. 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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    LIGATIONS FOR THE CURE OF ANEURISM. 4 / By L. 0. Lane, M.D., M.R.C.S. London, Professor of Surgery, Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, California. The following cases of arterial ligation, done for the cure of aneurism, are submitted for publication: FEMORAL ARTERY. 1. A grocer much addicted to beer, in 1863 presented himself for treatment for a large popliteal aneurism; aged 35, and of fat and plethoric habit. Femoral tied in . the Hunterian site, with ordinary silk, one end of the thread escaping from the wound. Alcoholic dressing. Ligature detached about the nineteenth day, followed on the twentieth by a violent hemorrhage from the site of ligature. Bleeding repeatedly occurred, until, as a last resort, the thigh was amputated at its middle. Death, finally, from exhaustion. 2. Mulatto: subject of popliteal aneurism; had the femoral tied in the middle of the thigh. Ligature detached near the end of the third week, when, though the wound was unclosed, to cancel his surgical obligation, he fled the city. I learned afterwards that he was cured. 3. A saloon keeper of lymphatic temperament; aged 28; had the Hunterian ligation done for cure of a popliteal aneurism. Lig- ature detached on the seventeenth day; three days afterwards violent hemorrhage from the unhealed wound, which despite com-
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