Amputation at the hip-joint by Wyeth's method : a clinical lecture delivered at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, February 3, 1892 / by W.W. Keen.

  • William Williams Keen
Date:
1892
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Credit: Amputation at the hip-joint by Wyeth's method : a clinical lecture delivered at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, February 3, 1892 / by W.W. Keen. 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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    r«4ep®ted from The Meihcae News, March 26, 1892,] AT THE HIP-JOINT BY WYETH'S METHOD. A ClinJ^l/ l ecture delivered at the Jefferson Medical Hospital, February3, i8g2. By W. W. keen, M.D., PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY AND OF CLINICAL SURGERY IN JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA. Gentlemen : The operation that I have to do before you to-day is a very rare one. The surgical members of the Faculty of this College have performed only five operations of this kind, but these five have been re- markable in one respect. The late Professor Joseph Pancoast did two amputations at the hip-joint; the first one was done at the Pennsylvania Hospital in the earlier part of i860—^just before I began the study of medicine —and in this case, for the first time, he adopted the method of preventing hemorrhage by an abdominal or aortic tourniquet; the case recovered. His second case was done in 1865, in the old College building, and also recovered.* The late Professor Samuel D. Gross first operated in 1862, at the Philadelphia Hospital — an operation that 1 had the pleasure of seeing ; his second was performed in 1865, and his third, in this amphithea- ter, in 1879: all three recovered. You observe, there- fore, the remarkable fact that my surgical predecessors have done five amputations at the hip-joint with five recoveries. It must be remembered, also, that these operations were in the pre-antiseptic days, and that the mortality of hip-joint amputation varies from 40 to 93