Report on clinical surgery for winter session 1874-75 / by George Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1905.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Report on clinical surgery for winter session 1874-75 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON CLINICAL SURGERY. The following* report contains an analysis of the cases under Professor George Buchanan’s care in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, during the first winter session after the wards were opened. The session began under unfavourable circumstances, in so far that the first clinical lecture was given with empty wards. The influx of patients, however, proved so great that in a short time the difficulty came to be to find beds for the numerous applicants ; while, as the list of operations will show, the operating theatre was busily occupied. Referring in the first place to the total cases, we find the number of females treated to be 40 ; males, 136= 176 indoor. Of these, 3 females and 8 males died—6*2 per cent.—1 in 16. The fatal cases were as under - 1. Mrs F., aged 32. Admitted Nov. 6, with cancer of rectum in an advanced stage. Patient had been sent into the In¬ firmary without previous notice, and, having been provided with a bed, she died before arrangements were completed for her return home. 2. A. W., age unknown. Picked up in street. Admitted Feb. 26, insensible. Unequal pupils; hemiplegia sinistra; stertor; small pulse. Died the same evening. On post¬ mortem examination, the right lateral ventricle of brain was found full of blood clot, and blood was effused in the sub¬ arachnoid space on the hemispheres.