On the treatment of wounds : clinical lectures / by Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1878
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    proportionately become more general; but the first condition must be absolute safety against hsemorrbage. Tliis is practically attained with tlie ligature. In twenty-four years' work as a Hospital Surgeon, I have never lost a patient from litemorrbage in private practice, and only one amongst the thousands who have come under my care in hospital. That was a woman from whose right axilla I had dissected a deeply-seated tumour. The bleeding was checked at the time by ligature and pressure, but, in the course of a week, secondary haemorrhage occurred in the middle of the night, and proved fatal, in spite of the best efforts of our then house surgeon. As an instance of how successfully large vessels may be tied, let me read you a note wliich I had the honour of receiving from the late Professor Syme. No. 1, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, January 19th, 1867. *' My dear Sir, *'I lately tied the femoral artery of a gentleman, for popliteal aneurism, with complete success, and this was the thirty-fifth time I had performed the operation without any unfavourable result; except in one case, where there had been an unsuccessful attempt by pressure. Yours very truly, James Syme. Sampson Gamgee, Esq^.