Large aneurism of the innominate artery : report of post-mortem findings / by F. Griffith.

  • Griffith, Frederic.
Date:
[1911?]
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Credit: Large aneurism of the innominate artery : report of post-mortem findings / by F. Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPRINTED FROM INTERNATIONAL CLINICS, VOL. Ill, •7 \ \A i?' nk si SER. 21. LARGE ANE REPORT OMINATE ARTERY: M FINDINGS * FITH, M.D. NEW YORK CITY Gentlemen: Please hear the report of the previous physical state and corpse condition of patient T. G., aged 54, an English horse-trainer who died of an aneurism on second month, sixth, 1911. His family history describes his mother dead at forty years from unknown cause, his father at sixty-one from heart or lung disease. He had four sisters, two are living and well, two are dead from causes forgotten. He was married to a Spanish actress by whom there were eleven children. His wife died at the age of thirty-nine f101X1 disease. One child died at the age of five years from a bioken neck sustained in headlong tumble from a horse during an act in the circus ring. Six other children died in infancy. Four children survive varying in age from sixteen to twenty-six and in temperament from pure Spanish to the more settled English per- sonality. The health of all is good. A half-brother of the patient, a clown, committed suicide half a year ago. This grieved T. G. very much. His second wife, who had been the trained nurse to the first, died a year ago from alcoholism after ten years’ marriage. The last visit of patient to America has extended over a period of fourteen months. He had always a good appetite; took coffee and tea every day; used tobacco and drank beer. Had a single attack of gonorrhoea in 1881; told me he never had syphilis. Bowels always regular; sleeps well but is forced to get up to urinate once every night. Has no drug habits. In childhood patient had scarlet fever but recovered well. When twenty-four years old the patient was performing on a wire rope which broke beneath his weight. He alighted upon his feet; at the same instant one end of the wire in recoil stabbed him in the * Presented before the New York Academy of Medicine, Surgical Section, at its meeting of May 5, 1911.