Account of a resection of the ribs and the pleura / read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, April 27, 1818, by M. Le Chevalier Richerand ; translated by Thomas Wilson.

  • Richerand, A. (Anthelme), 1779-1840.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Account of a resection of the ribs and the pleura / read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, April 27, 1818, by M. Le Chevalier Richerand ; translated by Thomas Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it to introduce itself through the wound, the patient could lay on his side, and his sleep and appetite were entirely restored. The wound, although until then dressed with a greasy linen rag immediately applied to its surface, rapidly diminished and exhibit- ed a better appearance. On the twenty-first day the greased linen rag was dispensed with, and they dressed as a simple wound, the surface covered with fleshy pimples, which sprung up from the lungs and the pericardi- um. The patient who had for some days made trial of his strength in a garden belonging to the house which he inhabited, could not re- sist the desire of riding in a carriage through the streets of the capital. Having experien- ced a fatigue from a ride of five hours in which he visited the school of Medicine and caused to be shewn to him the parts of his ribs and of his pleura deposited in the cabi- nets of that establishment, nothing could prevent him from departing the twenty-se- venth day after the operation, or from re-