The present practice of surgery : containing the description, causes, and treatment of each complaint; together with the most approved methods of operating / by Robert White, M.D. and practitioner in surgery.

  • White, Robert, active 1786-1792.
Date:
1786
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    was perfectly clofed, and afterwards healed. Pre- vious to pafling the pin, the incifion was made ac- cording to the ufual mode and extent, in order to lay the artery bare j and two ligatures were provi- fionally p'afied under the vefiel, one above, and the other below the orifice. It was firft dreffed on the fourth day from the operation, when the whole had a good appearance: the pin came away on the fourteenth day, and every part was healed by the twenty-fecond, except where the ligatures remained, which were never ufed; they were then removed, and the wound was per- fectly healed in a few days after. Mr. Lambert takes notice, in his account of this operation, Med. Obf. vol. ii. that the pulfe was very little weaker. There are but few opportunities for performing an operation of this kind, and as few furgeons who care to venture upon it in private practice, without further proofs of its good effects; it is perhaps for tHefe reafons that we have not heard of a fecond trial. Rational conjectures are formed againft its being generally practicable; but if it mould once more prove efficacious, there will then be great reafon to believe, that it may turn out a very va- luable, as well as ingenious improvement. The late Mr. Sharp obferves, that aneurifms which follow bleeding in the bafilic vein, generally happen above the divifion of the humeral artery; to render which impervious appears a defperate re- medy, and likely to produce mortification; but proofs