The practice of surgery . and wide dissections, often repeated, untilthe whole mass of affected vessels has been removed. The Arteries Surgery of the arteries finds expression in three directions—inligation, in the treatment of aneurysm, and in the suture of arteries—the last a new and increasingly important topic. LIGATION OF ARTERIES In former times, when sepsis raged, when secondary hemorrhagewas common, and hemostatic instruments were crude, the ligation ofarteries was taught as one of the most important branches of surgical LIGATION OF ARTERIES 777 handicraft. To-day it is rare for the op
The practice of surgery . and wide dissections, often repeated, untilthe whole mass of affected vessels has been removed. The Arteries Surgery of the arteries finds expression in three directions—inligation, in the treatment of aneurysm, and in the suture of arteries—the last a new and increasingly important topic. LIGATION OF ARTERIES In former times, when sepsis raged, when secondary hemorrhagewas common, and hemostatic instruments were crude, the ligation ofarteries was taught as one of the most important branches of surgical LIGATION OF ARTERIES 777 handicraft. To-day it is rare for the operating surgeon to seek andtie an artery in continuity, except for the treatment of aneurysm. Hemay occasionally expose and control temporarily a vessel with Crilesclamp in order to render bloodless a distant field of operation. Text-books of operative surgery deal extensively with the ligationof arteries. I shall content myself with describing the method ofapproaching and securing a few of the more important
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