A system of practical surgery / by William Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1852
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Credit: A system of practical surgery / by William Fergusson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    183/878 (page 159)
    The practice above described was certainly attended with considerable hazard, both on account of the inflammation as well as the hemorrhage, and it was not without misgivings that I adopted it. But the case Fig. 72. seemed otherwise hopeless, and the previous obliteration of the com- mon carotid led me to hope that such bleeding as might occur could be controlled. Without this preceding step, it may be doubted if the result would have been equally successful; and I am, therefore, dis- posed to attribute the satisfactory issue to a combination of the two methods, viz., first, the obliteration of the main arterial current towards the disease, and then the destruction of the vessels in its substance. It was my intention to have conducted the treatment of the case described at p. 154 on this plan, had it appeared, in the progress of time, that the disease in the foot was not arrested by ligature of the superficial femoral artery. The above plan of treatment may be considered a modification of a method pursued by Mr. Keate, Sir B. Brodie, the late Mr. White, and others. These gentlemen introduced the needles for the purpose