The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . r he could not ligate the bleeding artery in the external wound;it Avould not be justifiable to reach it by opening the belly as in ovariotomy;and the operation of tying the common iliac, on the plan of Hunter, w^ould befar too serious and uncertain of result to be resorted to at the outset. Ao-ain, the arteries are sometimes pierced from within the body by sharpfragments of bones that have been broken by the impact of gunshot projec-tiles, as happened in the following instance:— A soldier
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . r he could not ligate the bleeding artery in the external wound;it Avould not be justifiable to reach it by opening the belly as in ovariotomy;and the operation of tying the common iliac, on the plan of Hunter, w^ould befar too serious and uncertain of result to be resorted to at the outset. Ao-ain, the arteries are sometimes pierced from within the body by sharpfragments of bones that have been broken by the impact of gunshot projec-tiles, as happened in the following instance:— A soldier was admitted to hospital September 20, 1864, with a gunshot wound ofthe right side of his neck, received on the previous day. He was very weak fromhemorrhage from the wound and from haemoptysis. Notwithstanding plugging oi thewound, etc., the hemorrhage and the haemoptysis continued, and on October 5, deatiiresulted. Necroscopy. A conoidal musket-ball had entered the right inferior triangleof the neck, fracturing obliquely the first rib at its middle, and depressing the sternal Fig. 416. Fig.
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