A system of practical surgery / by William Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1852
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    action there also. The object of these wounds is to produce such excitement as may end in the formation of callus, and s0P bring about the desired bony union. Mr. Miller has himself adduced several -TCCeSS W1uh W Procedure’ and it seems to me well worthy of trial, especially before resection is undertaken. I have myself tried it repeatedly but without success. I believe, however, that m these instances a favourable result would not have followed any method, and m two of these the plan by resection, afterwards tried faded also Dieffenbach proposed to expose the ends of one or en%^y incision and then bore a hole in the bone, into which a pin of ivory should be introduced, and then left for some weeks, until the required excitement should be produced. This prac- tice has seldom been resorted to in this country. Recently ?Mr Stanley adopted it in Bartholomew’s Hospital, and the success has been complete; but the same plan has not proved satisfactory in the hands of Mr. Square of Plymouth, who tried it three years ago in nf efl?eV°n ifdWEa? ?rnWa11 HoSPital‘ ^her foreign maferiaL of an equaliy bland character, would act as well as ivory, I presume and the case above alluded to, where a silver probe was'left between the fragments, may be deemed analogous. Other surgeons have tried H.vP?f v\abr ^fTed,t0- AmonS them I ™y mention Mr Hey, of York, Mr. Teale, of Leeds, and my colleague, Mr. Bowman “°se Caf amost interesting case of the kind occurred S King’s’ College during last summer, some of the particulars of which will be found in the section of this volume on the lower extremity. CHAPTER XX. DISEASES OF BLOOD-VESSELS—ANEURISM. Many of the diseases of blood-vessels, especially those of the arteries t0 £He Pure Pathologist than to the practitioner in hod v L bey ari! SUCJ as cannot be readily recognised on the living- bod},and even when the surgeon can suspect or recognise their pre? sence, he has no control over them. Here I may allude to Rie chronic thickening of tunics, and the steatomatous and atheromatous deposits winch are so familiar to the pathologist. I mX even include the calcareous or ossific deposits which are so common I mav almost say constant, in the arteries of old people; but such a condf referred^6 reCOgnked “ the H than above