Report of seven cases of abdominal surgery in which the Murphy button was applied / by A. Vander Veer.
- Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of seven cases of abdominal surgery in which the Murphy button was applied / by A. Vander Veer. 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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![/ / •- . f REPORT OF SEV^N^ CASES QF^ ABDOMINAL SUR- GERY IN WHl'^-^E‘fcRPHY BUTTON WAS APPLIED.* BY A. VAXDER VP:ER, M. D., Professor of Didactic, Abdominal and Clinical Surgery, Albany Medical College, etc. ALBANY, NEW YORK. [Published e.xcluslvely in Mathews’ Medical Quarterly.] Mr. President and gentlemen : I am not unmindful of the fact that the reporting of clinical cases is not always the mo.st inter- esting material to present at such a meeting as this. On the other hand, the seven cases here presented have a bearing upon the use of the Murphy button that is now receiving much attention not only in this country but abroad, and as a method of inte.stinal anastomosis is being jilae.ed thoroughly on its merits. It is diffi- cult to understand some of the unfavorable reports made by English and German surgeons, when we contrast the very suc- cessful results indicated by so many of our American operators in the application in a practical way of this mechanical contriv- ance. Perhaps there is no part of surgery that, within the past quarter of a century, has presented .so much in theory and in which there has been so much disappointment, when practical use has been made of the suggestions, as in the field of abdominal work with all its complications. In other words, how much we have changed from time to time our methods of treatment of many complications, and yet, withal, there have come certain reli- able advanc&s that have met all requirements for which they were indicated, leaving permanently in our possession the comforting thought that a grand progress in the sum total has been made; that we can treat all manner of pathological conditions, trauma- tisms, malformations, etc., of the intestinal tract and abdominal cavity with less embarrassment than perhaps in any other part of the body, and yet there are very few portions of the human .system *Rend at the meeting of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, Wash- ington, D. C., November 12, 1895.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22446758_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
