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Credit: A new method of treating external aneurism / by Walter Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A NEW ]METHOD OF TREATING EXTEENAL ANEUEISM. In the autumn of last year I pointed out, and illustrated by a practical example, a new practice in the treatment of aneurism. The case was reported officially to the Director- General of the Naval Medical Department, who communicated it to the Lancet of the 25th September, 1875. The report created some interest at the time, and I have since been urged to publish it in a separate form, giving further details of the case with fuller explanations as to the principles upon which its treatment was conducted. The patient was a sailor, aged thirty-seven, belonging to a ship of war in harbour. He was admitted into hospital on the 10th of August, 1875, with a left popliteal sacculated aneurism. It had attained the size of a hen^s egg and pre- sented all the well-known characters of the disease, parti- cularly as regards form, pulsation, and bruit. The man was kept in bed on a light non-stimulating dietary until the 19th, when an attempt was made at cure by genuflexion, but without success, as it had to be aban- doned on the 23rd, owing to the pain and oedema of the leg which it caused. On the 26th rapid compression was tried— one of Cartels compressors being applied to the femoral artery at the pelvic brim and another at the apex of Scarpa^s space. After four hours continuous compression, the pain and distress being so severe as almost to lead to syncope, the instruments were removed. The pulsation in the tumour was found to have ceased, but it shortly afterwards returned- A number of attempts were afterwards made both by digital](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22368528_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
