Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young.
- Young, Samuel.
- Date:
- 1841
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![this examination 1 had not seen the limb for a fortnight, patient having applied the rollers herself. Dr. Sandys minutely examined the leg; the integument quite flaccid over the former aneurismal disease; and w] could he taken up freely between the finger and thumb, in ding the skin mark which is left as if from a scald, but w] is perfectly smooth and even with the skin. Dr. Sandys expressed his entire conviction of the for formidable nature of the case, the entire removal of the dis« and the now perfect health of the limb. Feb. 21st. Since the last report the leg had been seen once, the patient managing the rollers herself, which are; employed chiefly for the recovery of the integument of the o ancle, which formerly was so enormously distended, but wl has now nearly recovered its natural state; the leg other being in a perfectly healthy condition, the patient observ “I really think it stronger than the other.” To-day’s re also affords the gratifying confirmation, that throughout all late extremely cold and boisterous weather the limb has remai in every respect perfectly easy and unaffected, though the pat has been much exposed and out in all weather. So far tha testing the case in almost every possible my, by extre of heat and cold, and severe straining strong exercise, it may be said to be entira^t successful « The patient is in excellent health. The entire command of the compression treatment over ' Aneurism by Anastomosis,’ which has so often proved C in children, commonly known by ^‘ mother’s marks,” liasb also proved, since the one so cured in 1828 and 29, in instance of Mr. Kennerley’s child, the engraver and ai of London. This was a frightfully formidable case of coi derable bulk and height, and situated upon the windpipe. ^ of the pressure plates used in this case the author has notf him ; it measures full two inches across, and nearly as aM in diameter; made up with tea lead and plaister straps toi thickness of three quarters of an inch, and is of the firt texture. The internal plaister bearing the marginal mark ofl aneurism. Before it came under the treatment of compression, a cotit tation was held upon the case by Messrs. Lawrence, Vnwfi and Stanley, Surgeons, in the Bpard-room of St. Barthold^ Hospital, who declared upon the fatal nature of the dis*®](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22312110_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
