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
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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.

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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    describe the appearance and state the part was In—it w£ full two inches above the surface, and more tlian an ind a quarter in diameter at the top. In the course of three or four days the tumour which hi rose up, and was of a dark mortified colour, subsided : from the bottom of which was appended the present pend substance, and which is now fully the size of a large irre shaped dry fig, but much thicker in parts, and largely suj with blood vessels. At the time, however, of the subs of the tumour, this appendix was only the size of the first of a moderate forefinger; the very dark colour of the tu then subsided. The fig-like appendage grew rapidly the first twelve m to nearly its present size; even in a fortnight after the subs of the tumour as here described, upon the apjjendage roughly handled at a surgical examination, a Physiciar Surgeon being present, the blood was thrown upwards gi-eat force on and over the patient’s shoulder, and cont bleeding largely from the lower edge till bound up with p] straps and lint compress. Next day when the applications were removed b}' the M attendants, on being again handled, the-fig-like appenda^ only swelled up, but the aneurismal skin spot also ros three indies above the surface in a bursting and appa: mortified state. The patient describes the feeling at th( as if the whole were forcibly being dragged out by £ of pincers. At the same moment from the under and lower edge < appendage, (which the jiatient herself calls the tongm immense h£emorrhagi^ commenced, filling a large wash basin half full. The bleeding was of that character and < amount, as to induce the Physician who was present to ex By the woman will bleed to death.” The patiei rendered so weak in consequence, that an hour after i bound up she was unable to w£ilk without assistance. About this time it was that one of the many Surgeon attended upon the case proposed removing the parts b knife, describing a large area on the leg around and consid( beyond the disease with his finger ; this was objected to evidently most wisely, by the two jirofessiunal gentlemei alluded to; they preferred the removal of the limb at rather than hazard so uiicertain an operation, and urg