Suggestions for a ready method of recording surgical cases in hospital practice / by Edward Lund.

  • Lund, Edward, 1823-1898.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Suggestions for a ready method of recording surgical cases in hospital practice / by Edward Lund. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Y&hruanj 6th.—Last evening was eleaning a three-^tory window, and fell backwards, and has severe injury of therighthi^ and left shoulder. She fell upon the yard pavement with great force. She was slightly insensible from eoneussion. She has dislocated the right femur on to the dorsum ilii, but not much inversion of the foot; very weak and faint. To have stimulants. Fomentations to shoulder, &c. ff 7th.—Under chloroform I reduced it easily by the flexion method, and the bone went back into the acetabw/wm more with a grating noise than with an audible snap. Length, position, and motion, instantly restored. Mr. Dumville was present. “ 8th.—T)oing well. “ 10th.—Vulse weak; great debility. Mistura Quinse Acida c. Tinctura Camphorse composita. Much perspiration. 13th—Can move right thigh well; contusion on shoulder doing well, but peculiar loss of sensation along line of left ulnar nerve in the hand. Can rest weight on right leg. 20th.—In all ways doia_^ well. “March 6th.— Can now walk. To be out-patient’’ When the reports are completed and the case-papers of each filled up they are removed from the file and placed at first in large envelopes, each of which will hold twenty or thirty, and in this way they are carried away from the ward of the hospital into the library or study, to be placed in order and classified. I adopt at first an alphabetical order, guided only by the name of the patient, and, as can be well understood, such names as “ SmitlV’ “ Jones,” and “ Robinson,” will always occupy a very large proportion of such a collection. In putting them in this alphabetical form I use the spring-backed books sold by Messrs. De La Rue and Co. and depicted in fig. 4, and taking, for example, ten case papers in which the names of the patients begin with the letter “ B,” I arrange them in alphabetical order as far as the succeeding letters in each name are concerned, thus, “ Ball, Bott, Brett,” &c., and after this according to the Christian name, and where there are two of exactly the same name and surname preference is given to the younger of the two, and then to the one who was first admitted