. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. ich appeared to be at the end of the artery, and formedby its contraction. The orifice of the canal was marked bya small red point, to which a very slight and thin layer ofcoagulum adhered, the removal of which had no
. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. ich appeared to be at the end of the artery, and formedby its contraction. The orifice of the canal was marked bya small red point, to which a very slight and thin layer ofcoagulum adhered, the removal of which had no influenceon the resistance oftered by the very extremity of the artery ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 195 to the passage of blood through it. In this, and in anotherinstance of a similar nature, the end of the artery being cutoff at less than an eighth of an inch from the extremity, itbled with its usual vigor. In both, the vessel for near thatdistance was contracted so as to leave little or no canal atits orifice, which in these cases was filled by a coagulum ofthe size and shape of a very small pin. Mr. Deputy Inspector-General Taylor informs me thata soldier of the 44th Regiment was struck by a cannon-shoton the 21st of June, 1855, in front of Sebastopol; it carriedhis left arm away from the shoulder, leaving the artery, vein,and nerves exposed as in the accompanying sketch. The. 1. Axillary artery. 2. Axillary vein. 3, 3. Branches of axillary plexus of nerves. 4. Curved, pointed, and plugged ends of the artery and vein. The vessels are here represented as they lay ex^josed in the lacerated pointed and plugged ends of the vessels were of a dark coagulum color,while above both artery and vein had a reddish, vascular appearance, andwere held in close relation by then- sheath. The artery bent distinctly to thevery base of the coagulum. thought, he sa,ys, crossed my mind, as I held the artery be-tween my finger and thumb, that it might be for the benefit 196 ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.
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