The surgeon's vade mecum : a manual of modern surgery / by Robert Druitt.

  • Robert Druitt
Date:
1854
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    continued on the pica of want of success or large mortality resulting. This leads me to speak of Statistics, of which, very few notices appear in the following pages, partly from want of space, and partly because much of the statistical informa- tion which yet exists is interesting rather than useful, and may even from its imperfection be perverted to unfair pur- jDoses. To give the gross mortality after operations is inte- resting ; but that which is required for use, is an enumeration of all cases, so related that they may be classified, and the conditions of mortality made evident: and this work has now been undertaken by Mr. Hutchinson, and other zealous labourers, and in a few j'ears will amount to a really useful body of facts. Meanwhile some conclusions appear which well deserve to be followed up. For instance, when we learn from Mr. J->ryant that of Amputations generally 25 per cent, are fatal, 30 per cent, of the lower, 10 per cent, of the upper limbs, and that Pyaemia is the cause of death in 42 per cent, of the fatal cases, and in 10 per cent, of the whole number amputated, we ma}^ ask whether this is C)r is not a preventible cause ; and whether the arrangements of hospitals, the sponges, and other substances applied to wounds, the persons by whom they are applied, the mode of dressing, and the details of attendance on the patients, are regulated in accordance with what is known of the causes of the allied disease—puerperal fever—so as if possible to avoid this deci- mation ; or whether it is not looked itpon as an inevitable dispensation of Providence just as typlioid fever was t«'enty years ago The new wood engra\'ings have lieen made by liutterworth and Heath from the original drawings of my friend Dr. West- macott, with the exception of those relating to the Ophthal- moscope and Intussusception, which arc the work of Mr. Walmsley. . EGBERT DKUITT. ?>1 Haifonl Street, Matjfab; London, W. 1st October/[s:-'{i.
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