Clinical surgical report for the year 1871 / by George Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1905.
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[1872]
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Credit: Clinical surgical report for the year 1871 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLINICAL SURGICAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1871. BY GEORGE BUCHANAN, A.M., M.D., SURGEON AND LECTURER ON CLINICAL SURGERY, GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY; PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, ANDERSON’S UNIVERSITY, ETC. Reprinted from “THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOURNAL,” February. 1872. The following paper contains a short statement of the sur¬ gical practice of my Wards in the Glasgow Infirmary from 1st January, 1871, till 1st January, 1872. The statistics are compiled from the Ward Journals by my present house sur¬ geon, Mr Wm. J. Fleming. The number of male patients admitted to residence during the year was 251; female, 145; total, 396. This is exclusive of out-patients who were admitted temporarily, but were enabled to go home the same day, after having their injuries attended to. An accurate record has been kept of such cases only since the 1st of May, and since that date 81 have been treated in my wards, making a total of 477 in the year. Of the whole number of in-patients 367 were dismissed cured or relieved, and 29 died; not a large pro¬ portion, when it is considered that many of the patients were admitted in a hopeless condition—not for treatment, but to lie till death put an end to their sufferings. The table of casualties exhibits not only the value of our Infirmary to the working population, but its importance as a clinical school. Some hospitals may be richer in the rarer