On rupture of the popliteal artery and popliteal aneurism / by Alfred Poland.

  • Poland, Alfred, 1822-1872.
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: On rupture of the popliteal artery and popliteal aneurism / by Alfred Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON RUPTURE OF THE POPLITEAL ARTERY AND POPLITEAL ANEUEISM. By ALFEED POLAJND. At first, it was our intention to have published an original communication on complete laceration of the popliteal artery produced by external violence, without any lesion of the integu¬ ment, based upon three cases which had come under our espe¬ cial treatment at Guy^s Hospital within the past few years. But in so doing we considered that, by confining ourselves to these three isolated cases, we should be necessarily curtailing a very interesting subject, and should not well arrive at any satisfactory results. The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of this rare accident, as well as that of ruptured aneurismal sac, we found would well bear a thorough investigation; and this could only be done by collecting a sufficient number of cases, and, by comparing them together, thus elucidate the sub¬ ject in all its possible bearings. Hence, then, we have deter¬ mined to publish, in the ^ Guy^s Hospital Reports,^ cases collected from all sources, the majority of which are uncon¬ nected with that institution, an objection the difficulty of which we could not overcome. Collective experience is far more valuable than individual experience—a fact much over¬ looked in the present day, when general conclusions are often deduced from one solitary instance. In introducing the