Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young.

  • Young, Samuel.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Minutes of a formidable aneurismal state of the leg, (where amputation had been proposed as the only means to save life), cured by the treatment of compression / by Samuel Young. 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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    lity of the part; no rising upon rather rough examination dentation with the thumb and finger, over and imme- • upon the former aneurismal spot; and which occasioned tient to exclaim, “Aye, Sir, you would’nt have done that lonths ago !” No cutaneous blood-vessels ;—nothing ve vitality appears ; but on the contrary, a reduced and ?d, and altogether wholly altered state of things, urious fact is attendant upon the internal and progressive ion of the diseased mass, viz :—that although the pedicle k of the former fig-like process, with its two conspicuous vessels hare long since sloughed away, that still a suc- 1 of duplicature of skin, or under process, is from time } supplied ; evidently a new succession, for instead of each a narrow neck with two conspicuous blood-vessels, the f each, on the contrary, immediately in contact with the part of the remaining aneurismal skin spot, is now just ad as the aneurismal spot itself; and forming no neck to lall portion below, but equally broad with it, and covered same coarse, scaly cuticle, without a trace of blood-vessel, : aneurismal skin spot itself—showing in fact, that it is . continuation of it; and which is gradually slid off, or ed, upon the gradual subsiding of the internal aneurismal something after the manner of a land slip ; and just in Tie way precisely, as the fig-like process was in the first ce produced, viz:—from the subsiding of the up-raised e tumour, formerly described in the history of the case; here the diseased and distended integument, which covered ex of the diseased, or aneurismal mass, by such subsiding, e a sort of avalanche—was slid off-—and formed, as it le said, often-time spoken of fig-like tumour, or appended iS. this new appended, or slid down cuticle and skin, a il sloughing goes on by discharge ;—and thus it will go long as there is any internal disease to be obliterated ;— lerefore it is that active pressure is still kept up. The t’s health is excellent. Y 19th. The covering integument of the anetirismal spot ippendage this day presented a perfectly smooth and te cuticle; marking the progressive change going on from it report. July 26lh.—The integument of the aneurismal ind small appendage this day presented a rough, scaly e, and the appendix in a shrivelled and dried state : and