Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    went through the chest, and made its exit above the right breast; the other came over the shoulder,, and lay under the skin of the fore part of the- breast, where it was cut out. As they lay in the ward together, I was struck with the contrast they offered. In the specimens of balls lodgmg in bones, or which have passed through them, which from time to time 1 have picked up, none of them are changed in figure. It does not absolutely follow, that a ball which has entered a bone shall retain its- spherical form, yet it does so for the most part; but if it has struck a bone, and glided off among the soft parts, it will be found flat or irregular. If, howevery a ball strikes and splinters a bone, and then lodges in the soft parts, there is a pro- bability that the lead will be quite irregular and ragged. For example, if a ball has passed through the wrist, or fractured the radius, and has passed out and entered again into the side, of arm, or axilla, we shall probably find a piece of kad no longer retaining the figure of a ball. Irj such circumstances I have found a piece of lead as irregular as if it had been melted and cast into water. In searching for a ball, it may be thought very easy to distinguish with the probe betwixt the surface of the lead and the bone, but it is not al- ways so, and I have been deceived, and have seen experienced military surgeons tugging on what proved to be a portion of the bone. When it is important to discover, whether ^vhat we feel be