A case of total laryngectomy (unsuccessful) and a case of abdominal hysterectomy (successful) : in both of which massage of the heart for chloroform collapse was employed, with notes of 25 other cases of cardiac massage / by W.W. Keen.

  • Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.
Date:
1904
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Credit: A case of total laryngectomy (unsuccessful) and a case of abdominal hysterectomy (successful) : in both of which massage of the heart for chloroform collapse was employed, with notes of 25 other cases of cardiac massage / by W.W. Keen. 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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    (Figs. 1 and 2). Dr. McGirk reports that “the depression extended from before backward and was about one and a half inches in length, the deepest depression being about its middle, and extended over the lower portion of the anterior and pos- terior central convolutions. The inner surface shows the groove for the middle meningeal artery and also the fractured inner surface. The external surface shows Fig. 2.—Photograph of the button of bone. The left-hand figure shows the external surface and the depression caused by the blow. The right-hand figure shows (by a mirror) the internal surface, the fracture and depres- sion of the bone, and the groove for the middle menin- geal artery. a very marked depression of the skull. He was anesthetized with ether and oxy- gen. He took the anesthetic with great difficulty, and was cyanotic to a greater or less degree during the entire operation.” He made an uneventful convalescence; word memory returned in two weeks, but his hoarseness remained, as well as sore- ness, which had become worse within the prior four or five weeks. Finding that the throat condition was growing worse,