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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    Operator the fpace previoufly occupied by his fin- gers. In the firft of the foregoing cafes of Aneu- rifm, I experienced the want of it fo much, that before the performance of the fecond operation I had the inftrument, delineated in the annexed plate, very obligingly fent down to me, by your directions, and which was executed by Mr. Weifs, of London, from a model tranfmitted for that purpofe. It would be injuftice in me if I were not here to acknowledge the affiftance I obtained from my in- genious friend and colleague, Dr. Magennis, in the conftruClion of this inftrument; who did me the favor, alfo, to be prefent at both operations : in the latter of which, the utility of the finger inftrument was eminently confpicuous to him, and to all the burgeons of the fleet prefent. The inftrument, as I had originally conftrufted it, was in refpedt to fhape exactly what it now is, but the fingers, which were to have been of entire thin filver plates, were improved at Dr. Magennis’s fuggeftion, by fubfti- tuting filver wire of an adequate ftrength. I have farther to obferve, that the fingers of the inftrument form, with its handle, an angle of about 1 pla; Otlli are1 itse 1*1 the 700.* * Would not this inftrumeut be applicable to other great ope- rations, where the furgeon’s hands and attention are occupied about dedp feated parts for inftance, to protedtthe Inteftine in the divifion of Poupart’s ligament in the operation for Femoral Hernia ?