Report of a case of empyæma, with operation for closure of pleural cavity by removing portions of four ribs, with remarks / by A. G. Miller.

  • Miller, Alexander Gordon.
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[1885]
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Credit: Report of a case of empyæma, with operation for closure of pleural cavity by removing portions of four ribs, with remarks / by A. G. Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPOET OF A CASE OF EMPYEMA, WITH OPEKATION FOE CLOSUKE OF PLEUKAL CAVITY BY REMOVING PORTIONS OF FOUR RIBS, WITH REMARKS. By a. G. miller, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., SURGEON TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, AND LECTURER ON SURGERY, EDINBURGH. (Read before the Medico-Ghirurgical Society of Ediniurgh, bth Novemher 1884 ; and re'printed from the Edinburgh Medical Journal for January 1885.) C Report of case on admission kindly furnished by Dr Wyllie. D. S,, set. 22, single, floorcloth printer, admitted into Ward 31, Royal Infirmary, on 12th April 1883, complaining of short- ness of breath, cough, and general weakness. History.—Had always been a strong healthy man till his pre- sent illness, which began, three months before his admission, with severe pain in the left side. Says that the room that he worked in was close, ill-ventilated, and dusty; and thinks his illness was due to cold, caused by a draught in the room. The pain began severely one morning when the patient awoke. He consulted a medical man, who diagnosed pleurisy, and tapped the chest about the end of the first week of the ilhiess. At the operation, 2^ pints of clear fluid were withdrawn, and the patient was much re- lieved, though he states that much cough, with frothy expectora- tion, followed the operation. He was tapped a second time six weeks afterwards, but does not know what quantity of fluid was then taken. The pain in the side had disappeared before the first