On the causes of death after amputation / by Thomas Bryant ; communicated by John Birkett.

  • Bryant, Thomas, 1828-1914.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On the causes of death after amputation / by Thomas Bryant ; communicated by John Birkett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elephantiasis, and deformity more from expediency than necessity; and I would therefore suggest the use of such a term until a better is proposed. The literature of this subject is very scanty indeed; with the exception of a valuable paper by Mr. James, published in the eighteenth volume of the ‘ Transactions of the Pro- vincial Medical Association/ I am unable to point to any single memoir, in which the causes of death after amputa- tion have been made a separate subject of investigation. Mr. Alcock, in the twenty-third volume of the f Medico- Chirurgical Transactions/ in a paper upon the Joints, made some few observations upon it, and promised at a future period to give the profession his views generally upon the causes of death after operations; but in this the Profession has been disappointed; and in presenting this short memoir to the consideration of my Surgical brethren, I trust that the imperfections of its pages will be counterbalanced by the importance and interest of the subject, and that others more competent to undertake such an investigation will follow my example, and in future fill up the deficiencies, which, I doubt not, are too numerous.