A practical treatise on the arterial system : intended to illustrate the importance of studying the anastomoses, in reference to the rationale of the new operation for aneurism ; and the surgical treatment of hoemorrhage / by Thomas Turner.

  • Turner, Thomas, 1793-1873.
Date:
MDCCCXXV. [1825]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the arterial system : intended to illustrate the importance of studying the anastomoses, in reference to the rationale of the new operation for aneurism ; and the surgical treatment of hoemorrhage / by Thomas Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion to the extent of the space left between the ligature and the disease; the impulse too is dimi- nished, as the blood has no great distance to cir- culate. But there is another circumstance which operated favourably in Deschamp’s case, and I doubt not in all successful cases of the same kind, namely, the passing off of branches from the inferior portion of the pervious part of the artery: these branches, which are probably either the ramus anastomoticus, and the upper articular branches, or one or more of these, are capable of carrying off the blood which enters the pervious trunk, and thus lessening the power of the current on the aneurismal sac. When a portion of the artery remains of its due diameter between the place of the ligature and the disease, we must always sup- pose that these branches are pervious, or that the circulation through the aneurismal sac is not sus- pended, for the blood must have the means of egress as well as ingress. If neither the one nor the other of the above outlets existed, it must regurgitate and escape by the same vessels by which it entered, which is difficult to be con- ceived. When the blood can pass by collateral vessels arising from the lower part of the pervious artery, it will do so, without attempting to over- Y