The first lines of the practice of surgery: designed as an introduction for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners (Volume 1).

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1822
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    morrhage succeeded, the great decrease in the size of the gland before death, is a sufficient encouragement to repeat the trial, particularly as the method of applying ligatures round large arteries is now brought into a very improved state. If the femoral, and even the external iliac arteries will heal, when tied in the manner recommended by the best modern surgeons ; if also the common carotid will undergo the same beneficial change, as recent cases have proved; * we can en- tertain no doubt, that the superior thyroideal will do so. In fact, Desault, Theden, and Vogel, tied all the thyroideal arteries in extirp^ing bronchoceles, and these vessels healed as well as any others. In applying the ligature, the operator, above all things, should be veryflareful to use one which is firm, and of an evenly round sn*ape, whicli qualities tend to render the division of the inner coats of the artery more certain of happening in the most desirable way. With the same view, the vessel should be tied with due force, and, for reasons explained in the chapters on Hemorrhage and Aneurisms, the ligature should be applied to the vessel, as closely as possible to where it lies ^mong its natural connexions. CHAPTER XXXVI. WOUNDS OF THE THORAX ARE divided into those whicl^ do not penetrate, and into others which do penetrate that cavuty, The former do not differ in their nature from common wounds, and therefore do not demand particular consideration. Cuts and sabre wounds hardly ever interest the parts con- tained in the chest; stabs and gunshot wounds are the ordi- nary kinds of violence, by which the thoracic viscera are in- jured. Wounds which simply penetrate the chest, without wound- ing any contained part, are often unaccompanied by any dangerous, or peculiar symptoms. It is frequently difficult to pronounce positively, whether a wound extends into the cavity of the thorax or not. Many