. Hospital Bulletin . wed through. An attempt was madeto clean out the axilla, but it could not be donesatisfactorily. The woman was considerablyshocked, but rallied, and made a good recoveryfrom the operation, and left the hospital in lessthan a month with her wounds healed. She gavebirth to a child at term, but died of recurrencewithin a year. Case II. Jessie J., a colored girl 20 years ofage, and married, was admitted to University 130 THE HOSPITAL BULLETIN Hospital on January 14, 1915. Her complaintwas a lump on the back involving- the right scap-ula. This began as a small lump two vears a
. Hospital Bulletin . wed through. An attempt was madeto clean out the axilla, but it could not be donesatisfactorily. The woman was considerablyshocked, but rallied, and made a good recoveryfrom the operation, and left the hospital in lessthan a month with her wounds healed. She gavebirth to a child at term, but died of recurrencewithin a year. Case II. Jessie J., a colored girl 20 years ofage, and married, was admitted to University 130 THE HOSPITAL BULLETIN Hospital on January 14, 1915. Her complaintwas a lump on the back involving- the right scap-ula. This began as a small lump two vears ago;but before she noticed any swelling there hadbeen some pain in the right arm and had had a fall, but does not know that shestruck her back. When discovered the growthwas about the size of a hickory nut, but it grad-ually increased in size and became painful, thepain and soreness extending in various pain begins about 4 oclock, and continuesall night, seriouslv interfering with her necting the shoulder blade with the trunk weresevered, and the deltoid detached from the was rather free bleeding before the vesselscould be secured. When the parts had been suffi-ciently exposed the acromion process was sawedthrough at its junction with the spine, and thenthe neck of the scapula was divided with a smallsaw. In this manner the coracoid process andthe glenoid cavity, as well as a portion of the at-tachment of the deltoid muscle, was wounds were sutured without drainage. She
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