Ligature of the external iliac artery, followed by secondary haemorrhage / by James R. Wood ; reported by Geo. Amerman.

  • Wood, James R. (James Rushmore), 1816-1882.
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: Ligature of the external iliac artery, followed by secondary haemorrhage / by James R. Wood ; reported by Geo. Amerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    2-4 LIGATURE OF TUE EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY, FOLLOWED BY SECONDARY HEMORRHAGE. BY JAMES4 R. WOOD, M.D., SUBGEON TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, ETC. (Reported by Geo. Amerman, m.d., House Surgeon.) Samuel 0'D.,aged 22 5 born in New York 5 by occupation a butcher. No hereditary tendency to disease traceable. He has always enjoyed good health. 0n the 6th of October, 1855, he was shot with a pistol. The ball entered the fleshy part of the left thigh, at the junc- tion of the middle with the upper third, on the outer aspect of the limb, and made its exit on the inner side, ab a point somewhat above its entrance. Very little haemorrhage fojlowed the injury, but the limb became painful and swollen. The pain was of a sharp lancina- ting character, first felt below the knee and extending down the leg to the foot and great toe. In the great toe the pain was most severe; it lasted about twenty-four hours, and then gradually disappeared; since which time he has had no pain in any part of the limb. The swelling continued four or five days. Antiphlogistic means were resorted to, for the purpose of subduing the inflammation, and cold water dressings applied to the part. He suffered very little constitutional disturbance, and two weeks after receiving the injury was able to walk about the yard. On the fourth or fifth day after he began to take exercise, he observed for the first time, a small, round, soft, and compressible tumor, situated on the anterior aspect of the thigh, in the inferior part of