Use of the Dead to the Living

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Excerpt from Use of the Dead to the Living: From the Westminster ReviewIt probable, that a sufiicient supply would be borne to these parts through the medium of collateral branches. For an 'aneurism in the ham, he, thereforeuboldly cut down upon the main trunk of the artery which supplies the lower ex tremity and applied a ligature around it. Where it is seat 'cd near the middle of the thigh, in the confident expectation \thait, though he thus deprived the limb ofthe supply of blood nih eh it received through its direct channel, it would not perish. His knowledge of the processes of the animal eco iidmy, led him to expect that the force of the circulation be ing thus taken off from the aneurismal sac, the progress of the disease would be stopped that the sac itself, with all would be absorbed, that by this means the would be removed, and that an opening into it ecessary. The most, complete success follow experiment, and the sensations which this phi member experienced when he witnessed the event, must: liave been exquisite, and have constituted an appropriate restart] for the application of profound knowledge to the mi tigatioh of human suffering. After Hunter folio n'dt'hy, who, treading in the footsteps of his mas aneurism of the femoral, placed a ligature around nal iliac artery lately the internal iliac itself has been ta ken tip, and surgeons have tied arteries of such importance, that they have been themselves astonished at the extent and splendor of their success. Every individual, on whom an operation of this kind has been successfully performed, is snatched by it from certain and inevitable death! The symptom by which an aneurism is distinguished from diet-y other tumor is, chie¿y its pulsating motion. When an aneurism has become very large, it ceases to pul s'aie and when an abscess is seated near an artery of great magnitude, it acquires a pulsating motion because the pul sations of the artery are perceptible through the abscess. The real nature of cases of this kind cannot possibly be as certained, without a most careful investigation, combined with an exact knowledge of the structure and relative posi ti'hh of all the parts in the neighborhood of the tumor. Pel letan', one of the most distinguished surgeons of France, was one day called to a man who. After a long walk, was seized with a severe pain in the leg, over the seat ofwhich appeared attimor, which was attended with a pulsation so violent that it lifted up the hand of the examiner. There seemed every reason, to suppose that the case was an aneurismal swelling. This acute observer, however, in comparing the affected with the sound limb, perceived in the latter a simi lar throbbing. 0n carciul examination he discovered that, by a particular disposition in this individual, one of the main arteries of the leg (the anterior tibial) deviated. From.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.