Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal

Abstract

In these operations the distal mode of Brasdor has not been tried. The old method 16 times; and that of Hunter, with Scarpa's ligature 66 times. The number of cases of true aneurism was 33, of which two only were women. The results were, 10 unsuccessful and 23 cures. The number of false aneurisms was 10, all of which were successfully treated; Of the six cases of arterio-venous aneurism, for which the humeral artery was tied in each case, four were successful, .and in two amputation was necessitated by gangrene or secondary haemorrhage. These statistical facts will be read with interest by the English surgeon, by whom the thick ligature used by Scarpa is now carefully eschewed, but the small number of cases (4) in which secondary hbemorrhage occurred, will certainly bear out M. Roux in his attachment to this mode of operation. The difference between the EngLish and French modes of conducting the ligature of arteries is so great, both in the operation itself and in the dressing of the wound, that we rejoice to lind that the above facts will form part of a complete work on surgery, which M. Roux is now preparing, and of which the memoir presented to the Societe de Chirurgie is only an instalment. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1852.