Observations on the ligature of arteries, secondary hemorrhage, and amputation at the hip-joint / by James Veitch.

  • Veitch, James, 1770?-1856.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Observations on the ligature of arteries, secondary hemorrhage, and amputation at the hip-joint / by James Veitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ence, and weighed seven pounds four ounces. I also, a little time back, in the Royal Infirmary of this place, saw Mr. Law dissect out, with much precision, a tumour seated on the side and back, that weighed twenty pounds. This operation, as well as my own, was attended with the most per- fect success. When the bone is removed, every vessel is to N be secured by a single thread, one half of which is to be taken off, as recommended by me, in a little essay on the ligature of arteries, and second- ary hemorrhage, published in the sixth number of The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, under the head Inquirer, and signed J. D. I may here observe, that I extend the mode there recom- mended, of tying the blood-vessels, and arranging the ligatures, to all operations where it is neces- sary to secure the vessels by ligature, and particu- larly to extirpation of the testicles, and aneurism, operations where it has been almost the constant practice, not only to use one very broad ligature, but to apply a second equally broad, by way of greater security. Broad ligatures stretch, insu- late, and derange the relative communications of the extremity of the vessel thus taken up, an d