Silver sutures in surgery : the anniversary discourse, before the New York Academy of Medicine, delivered in the new building of the Historical Society, on the 18th November, 1857 / by J. Marion Sims.

  • Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Silver sutures in surgery : the anniversary discourse, before the New York Academy of Medicine, delivered in the new building of the Historical Society, on the 18th November, 1857 / by J. Marion Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    close these by tlie silver wires, secured by the clamps or leaden bars, and now applied them with the button. The operation in both instances failed. Case YI.-A small fis- tula a, fig. 7, at the neck of the bladder; tissue scanty and indurated; button failed, [a, &, line of union effected by a distinguished surgeon before her admission to the Woman's Hospital.] Case VIL—Here the injury was at the neck of the bladder, (see fig. 9,);—The button was used, and union took place. Six successive failures * out of seven operations with the silver suture, secured by Dr. B.'s method, was a most astonishing result; and it was but natu- ral to inquire into the cause. I had supposed that his success was due to the button, which was not the case, as the sequel will show. Anxious to test fairly the advantages of this plan of securing the silver wires, I had performed these seven operations in as many days, and the last one was executed before the result in any preceding case was known. * Subsequently cured by the silver wire, as a simple interrupted suture. Since the above was written, Dr. B. has published cases in which his button failed repeatedly in his own hands. 2