The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 66

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Excerpt from The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 66: January-June, 1894The dressing thereafter was changed daily. The wound, how ever, did not do well. After the slough caused by the acu pressure pins had separated the sloughing process spread to the rest of the wound. The line of union separated, and on the twelfth day after operation secondary hemorrhage occurred from the upper part of the wound at very much the same spot from' which the original hemorrhage had occurred a few hours after op eration. This was treated by pressure and a new dressing. Two days later it recurred and was controlled by the introduction of two catgut sutures introduced at the point of bleeding. Death occurred fifteen days after operation, from exhaustion due to the hemorrhage and the septic contamination from the sloughing sur face. N o autopsy was obtained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.