Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms : including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms : including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not exceed 75 strokes in a minute ; it was generally lower, and once I found it to be only 68. At the expiration of the month, she got up daily, and walked about the ward ; although, on her admission into the hospital, she was incapable of walking at all. There was not the least oedema of the limb. Its circumference, at the calf, was but one- third of an inch less than the opposite side. Having walked many times the length of the ward, she became tired, and thought that the limb which had been operated on felt more fatigued than the other. The aneurismal tumour remains at this time of a considerable size. It is certainly more than one-third less than at the time of the operation. I have related the case thus particularly, in order that the reader may judge of it for himself. To me it appears, from this and the former cases, that in an advanced state of femoral aneurism, the artery may be tied above Poupart's ligament, with as little detriment to the circulation of the limb, as in other cases of aneurism, where the operation is attended with very constant success. The symptoms immedi-