Aneurism of the femoral artery and A knife-wound of the intestines / by W.O. Roberts.

  • Roberts, William Ogilvie.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Aneurism of the femoral artery and A knife-wound of the intestines / by W.O. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    LIGATION OF THE EXTERNAL ILIAC-CURE.* A negro man, thirty-seven years of age, presented himself the University clinic on the nth day of last May, giving the lowing history: He had been a heavy drinker, and occasion- y indulged in a protracted spree. Ten years ago he had been n:ated for syphilis, and having had no manifestations of the dis- 'Se since, considered himself cured. He was an uncommonly uscular man, and while turning somersaults in a strolling play :mpany he fell in the act and struck his right thigh against the d of a chair. He was confined to his bed for some days after, d the thigh swelled greatly. This was in the summer of 1882. ce has been lame since that time, and has scarcely been free )im pain in the hip, thigh and knee. Several months after the ccident, while rubbing his lirnb, he discovered a small, hard rnp in the upper and inner part of the thigh, at the point which d been struck in the fall. This gradually increased in size. In bruary last he had become so lame as to be unfit for any kind business, the tumor being about the size of the fist. He w for the first time consulted a physician, who recognized the nor as an aneurism, and applied Martin’s bandage. This atment was kept up for a week, the bandage being applied ectly over the tumor, remaining on several hours of each day, f ten it had to be abandoned on account of the pain it produced. ie tumor now increased in size more rapidly, and the entire lb began to swell from the foot up, and the lameness to grow rse. He came to the University clinic on the nth of May t, walking with extreme difficulty and in great pain. I found immense tumor occupying the inner and anterior part of the gh, extending for an inch and a half below Poupart’s ligament *Read before the Louisville Medical Society, July, 1883.