A treatise on the anatomy, pathology, and surgical treatment of aneurism, with engravings / by Antonio Scarpa... ; Translated from the Italian with notes by John Henry Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1808
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Credit: A treatise on the anatomy, pathology, and surgical treatment of aneurism, with engravings / by Antonio Scarpa... ; Translated from the Italian with notes by John Henry Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ei Tur author has given so minute a detail of his particular theory of the immediate cause of this disease, and has adduced so many au- thorities in support of its truth, that it would be superfluous in the translator to attempt any farther elucidation of the subject. Im was at first intended, in imitation of the authors plan, to have given a series of plates or outlines to illustrate the anatomical de- sctiption of the arteries, but this would have added so considerably to the expence of the — work, that it was thought expedient to omit them. Two plates, however, in a reduced size, have been inserted, as they elucidate in a very accurate manner, the authors theory with regard to the formation of the disease in the aorta, as well as in the arteries of the ex= tremities. ‘I'he second plate likewise contains several figures to explain a particular case of aneurism in the bend of the arm, where a cure was obtained by a cicatrisation of the puncture of the lancet, without the canal of the artery having been obliterated. Tur translator has inserted under the text, some short cases and remarks, which are so immediately connected with the subject, that