Statistical report of the major operations performed by Professor Spence in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary / by George Kirkwood ; with remarks by Professor Spence.

  • Kirkwood, George.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Statistical report of the major operations performed by Professor Spence in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary / by George Kirkwood ; with remarks by Professor Spence. 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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    Amputation of Forearm— Number. Recovered. I*or Disease—After poisoned wound and in- flammation of fibrous textures of hand and forearm . - . . * _ 1 0 Epithelioma of wrist 1 0 2 0 — — Excision of Joints. I. Genehal Results— Hip . . . . . 3 3 Knee ..... 5 4 Ankle ..... 1 1 Shoulder ..... 5 5 Elbow . . . . . 9 9 • 23 22 11. Knee— Anchylosis after injury ... 1 1 Disease of knee-joint 4 3 6 4 - 111. Elbow— Anchylosis after bum 1 1 Disease of elbow-joint 8 8 9 9 — — The excisions of the hip, shoulder, and ankle were for disease. Removal of Tumours. (1.) Of Mamma— Number. Recovered. Malignant: Scirrhus (excision of mainina) 12 12 (2.) Of A.xilla— (a) Simple; Atheromatous 1 1 Cystic 1 1 (b) ilidignant; Moss of scirrhous glands 1 1 3 3 Died. 11 1=' 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1» 1 0 0 0 Died. 0 0 0 0 0 1 Died one month after the amputation, of pleurisy and pneumonia. ^ Patient wa.s sixty-seven years of age. Prior to his admission the epithelioma had been treated with caustics, and when he came to the hospital the parts were fetid and sloughy. His general health was in a bad state, his pulse weak, etc., and after the removal of the limb the stump was attacked by phlegmonous erysipelas, which proved fatal in about a fortnight. The knee was excised for gelatinous disease pretty far advanced. The patient died of pueunomia one month after the excision.