The operative treatment of bronchocele : with notes on eleven cases of unilateral extirpation : a dissertation accepted for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Oxford / by Walter John Turrell.

  • Turrell, Walter John, 1865-
Date:
1892
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    wlio was the last of the Greek and Roman physicians, is the only one who makes any mention of the treatment of bronchocele. He divided bronchoceles into two classes: (i) the steatomatous, (2) the aneurysmatical, (evpufT/AarcoS?/?). 'The aneurysmatical we judge of from the symptoms of aneurysm, and abandon as hopeless, like all other aneurysms which it is dangerous to meddle with, as is the case most especially with those of the neck, owing to the size of the arteries. The steato- matous we operate upon like steatomes in general, distinguishing and avoiding the vessels, in the same manner as for strumae.' (P. -<Egin. Liber vi. cap. 38.) Shortly after the time of Paulus the capture of Alex- andria by the Saracens occurred, and from this period until the Xth and Xlth centuries, surgery shared the fate of the other sciences, and was untaught and un- practised. In the Xth century the Arabians, who then became the possessors of several of the old Greek and Roman manuscripts, appropriated these to themselves, and having amplified them and inserted descriptions of their own barbarous implements of surgery, published them as their own works. Of these Arabian physicians the chief were Albucasis, Rhazes, Averrhoes and Hali Abbas. To Albucasis is awarded the credit of having been the first to write a good description of a broncho- cele ; he lived, according to Fabricius, in the Xlth century, and from his writings appears to have been a very bold surgeon. Albucasis distinguishes between two forms of bron- chocele, a natural and an accidental. The natural there is no cure for. The accidental is of two kinds, the one like a tumour, the other like an aneurj'-sm; the latter is dangerous and must not be touched with a knife. He recommends that the former, which is like a fleshy tumour, shall be cut into if it is not connected with the large vessels,' and you shall tear it out, if it is contained