A series of experiments performed for the purpose of shewing that arteries may be obliterated without ligature, compression, or the knife / by Benjamin Phillips.

Date:
1832
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Credit: A series of experiments performed for the purpose of shewing that arteries may be obliterated without ligature, compression, or the knife / by Benjamin Phillips. 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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    organs of the human frame, have tended to place the science and practice of surgery upon a ra- tional basis. Few diseases exhibit more marked evidence of the advance of surgical knowledge than aneu- rism ; few of the operations of surgery have tended more to the mitigation of physical suffer- ing than those which have been from time to time adopted for the removal of this disease. In the early history of surgery we find that science had presented humanity with no remedy for aneurisms. Patients were, at that time, al- ways left to themselves ; and, unless nature her- self furnished a remedy for the disease, death put an end alike to their sufferings and their lives. For many ages scientific men have been occupied in endeavouring to lessen the ravages and arrest the progress of the disease. The first remedy adopted for aneurisms was amputation : a remedy only available where the disease was situated at the extremities. b 2