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A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy / [Sir Charles Bell].

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1814
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Credit: A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy / [Sir Charles Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the main trunk is cut and tied. When the — main artery of a limb is tied we expect the free course of the blood by the anastomosing branches. stil] to supply the lower part of the limb; and surely, when we are so confident of this expecta- tion, we cannot doubt the propriety of tying the artery both above and below the wound, so that there may be no fear of hemorrhagy from the re- turning blood, and no necessity for a compress to be put into the wound. | X. A QUESTION may still remain with my reader in the case of a wound of the fore-arm, or les—when the ball has torn both arteries what is to be done? I take particular pleasure in producing the follow- ing case, presented me by Mr. Torbitt of the Crescent, formerly a pupil of mine. A CASE OF DIFFUSED ANEURISM WHICH HAPPENED AT THE SIEGE OF DANTZIC, MAY THE THIRD, 1807. A Pottsu pilot was offered a pecuniary reward, from the British Consul, to carry dispatches from General Kalkruth, commanding the garrison of Dantzic, to General Kaminski, commanding the allied Russian and Prussian army in the Fair Water. On his passage in an open boat down the Vistula, he was fired at by the French sentinels from both banks of the river, and received a wound from a