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.

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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    PRELIMINARY REMARKS. In accidents accompanied with woimds, as well as in the varied operations of surgery, there is no mode of suppressing hemorrhage equal to that of the hgature; since its intro- duction it is therefore not sm’prising, that its form and manner of application should at all times have become an object of deep interest, with those sm’geons, who were enthusiastically devoted to the interests of humanity and of their profession, because the results of their exertions often yield to minds thus constituted the highest gi-atifications that can spring fi-om the powers of surgery, and success in this department of the healing art is greatly de- pendent on the form and due application of the ligature. In the operations of the surgeon