A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / by Alex. Copland Hutchison.

Date:
1811
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Credit: A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / by Alex. Copland Hutchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    '-'ci-1 From this period until the 2nd or 3rd of August :he difcharge gradually diminifhed, and the wound was cicatrifed on the 7th. The tumor continued to decreafe daily, until his difcharge from the hofpital.—It was then barely difcernible. I heard of him within the laft month, when the accounts were fo favourable, that, to ufe his own exprefion, there was no veftige of the tu- mor left, and he could then walk without the leaf: limp, which, he faid, he had not been able to do for years before. I am ftrongly inclined to believe that the pneu- monic fymptoms which immediately fucceeded the operation, had been principally inftrumental in favoring the extraordinary formation of matter found under the mufcle during the cure. The pa- tient’s afthmatic complaint was aggravated by this attack, to fuch an extent, that whenever he coughed, the affedted leg and thigh, with the whole frame, were fo violently agitated, as to occafion great ap- ^reheniions of an haemorrhage, by detaching the upper ligature from the extremity of the divided artery, during thefe vehement mufcular concuffions. Case II. &c. Burnett Allan, feaman, aged thirty-two, was ad- mitted into the hofpital for Popliteal Aneurifm, on