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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    Iff quests of which French surgery has a right to be proud. That M. Abernethy had da~ red, the first, to put a ligature on the exter- nal iliac artery, in an aneurism seated at the uppermost extremity of the thigh, is an act of surgery truly efficacious and transcen- dant, but that our colleague had proceeded to attack as far as the inner part of the chest, even nigh the heart, the roots of a cancer which the ribs appeared irrevocably to hide from the reach of the instrument, is also a stroke of extraordinary surgery and in some sort heroic, in which we know not which most to admire, either the conception of the plan, or the ability of the execution ! VVe will make the remark before all, that M. Richerand has had to do with a patient who was as determined to undergo every thing as his Surgeon was to undertake ; and equally as convinced that the only chance left him to escape the most dreadful death was an operation on the issue of which he (a man of the profession) was very far from de- Q.civinjr himself.