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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    When amputation was first employed for the cure of aneurism I cannot determine; but it seems doubtful whether amputation had been performed for any purpose whatever, much before the time of Celsus, although allusion is made to the subject in the writings of Hippocrates ; in a manner, however, so indistinct as to make us hesitate in asserting' that the operation had ever been performed in his time. When the ligature was first employed is not well known. Archigenes of Apamei, who lived at Rome in the reign of Trajan, first speaks of compressing arteries, in amputation, for the pur- pose of preventing hemorrhage ; either by con- stricting the member according’ to Platner, or by the ligature according to Peyrilhe. The ligature is spoken of by Celsus in re- ference to hemorrhage :—“ Venae quae sangui- “ nem fundunt apprehendendae, circaqueid cpiod “ ictum est, duobus locis deligandae, interciden- “ daeque sunt, lit et in se ipsae coeant, et nihil-