A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the anastomosing vessels to enlarge, and increase their diameter and mus- cular powers, before the final obliteration of the principal artery. But where the mischief is not in other respects great, the destruction even of the principal artery of the limb, is not of itself a sufficient reason for amputation. Much less is it allowable to amputate on account of a wound in a branch of the principal artery, provided it be so situ- ated, that it can be secured by a ligature, or adequate compression, or have spon- taneously ceased to bleed. By a princi- pal artery, I mean what the brachial artery is to the upper extremity, or the femoral artery to the lower. The ulnar and radial arteries of the fore-arm, and the anterior and posterior tibials of the leg, are only to be considered as branches. For the destruction of the radial would be fully compensated by the integrity of the ulnar, or that of the anterior by that of the posterior tibial, and vice versa.