Case of amputation at the shoulder-joint / by Charles Freiott.

  • Freiott, Charles.
Date:
[1853]
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Credit: Case of amputation at the shoulder-joint / by Charles Freiott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * CASK O J- AMPUTATION AT THE SHOUIJ^R-JOINT ^ BY CHARLES FREIOTT. M. I). John Christopher Stevens, a stocking-weaver by occupa- tion, aged forty-six, of a melancholic temperament, a native of Saxony, had been in this country about six weeks. On the morning of the 5th of July last, while engaged in under- mining a bank of clay about eight feet high, near the steam mills of the Albany Nail Factory, the bank caved in upon him, forcing the right arm between the spokes of one of the wheels of a wagon he had been loading. In order to get room to extricate him, the driver, not knowing the situation of his arm, drove his team forward, and thus added to the in- jury. Soon after the accident he was seen by my colleague^ Dr. James Thome, and other physicians, who recommended his immediate removal to the Hospital, where he arrived about eleven o'clock. On examination, the humerus was found to be comminu- ted at about three inches below the head. The integument and muscles were torn away, leaving the bone exposed from the anterior and external aide of the neck of the humerus, from a line one inch posterior to the acromion process, to the insertion of the pectoralis major muscle. His pulse was very small