Observations in the military hospitals of Dresden / by Alexander Bruce.

  • Bruce, Alexander, 1842?-1869.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Observations in the military hospitals of Dresden / by Alexander Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ligature was generally applied as near as was prudent to the end of the stump, and in a few cases on the face of the stump. Distal ligature (Anel’s method) gave bad results. The necessity of applying the ligature at the seat of injury in primary haemorrhage was clearly shewn. Pyaemia supervened in 377 cases of gunshot injury in which no operation was performed, and in 295 cases of amputations, of which 155 were cases of amputation in the continuity of the Femur ; it occurred in 27 cases of excision in the shafts of long bones and in 28 excisions of joints. “ These figures by no means represent the frequency with which pyaemic poisoning has occurred. It has been one of the great sources of mortality after amputations and its victims are to be counted by thousands.” Statistics proved the inutility of the Sulphites and Hyposulphites as therapeutic agents in this disease. The remainder of the report is occupied with a discussion on Surgical Operations, which cannot be abbreviated with advan- tage, and with questions relating to the management and sanitary conditions of Military Hospitals into which space will not allow me to enter. London: Printed by H. K. Lewis, 136, Gower Street, W.C.