Clinical surgical report / by George Buchanan, A.M., M.D.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1905.
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Clinical surgical report / by George Buchanan, A.M., M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLINICAL SURGICAL REPORT. BY GEOKGE BUCHANAN, A.M., M.D., Surgeon and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Lecturer on Anatomy, Anderson’s University, Ac., Ac. The Statistical tables affixed to the annual report of the Eoyal Infirmary, contain a very meagre account of the general results of surgical practice. Any such compilations to be interesting must be detailed a little more fidly, and to be of any real value, as grounds of comparison with the practice of other hospitals, the data in each case must be presented with considerable accuracy. The following tables contain a vidimus of the surgical practice in the wards under my charge from 1st Januar}’-, 1865, to the same date 1866. Ward 27, where casualties are received, con- tains 19 beds and 3 cribs; ward 80, for females, contains 14 beds and 5 cribs; and ward 16, for chronic surgical diseases in males, contains 18 beds and 1 crib: in all, 60 patients can be admitted to the three wards under my charge. In summer they are never fully occupied, but at otlier times frequently every bed is engaged. Thus the practice of this section of the infirmary is that of a small surgical hospital of 60 beds, to which are admitted cases of all kinds occurring in males, females, and chil- dren. The total number of patients admitted during the year ending 1st January, 1866, was 447; of these, 333 were males, and 114 females. Of the whole number, 50 were children, under twelve years of age. Of the whole number admitted during the year, 414 were dismissed cured or relieved, whilo 33 died. Only one child of the 50 died, exhausted by an enormous chronic abscess of the thigh. By examining the table, it will be seen that many of the deaths were the result