Introductory for 1844-5 : on the present position of some of the most important of the modern operations of surgery / by Thomas D. Mütter.

  • Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent), 1811-1859.
Date:
1844
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    and the operation, though still recommended by some, can not be considered as one at all popular with the profession at large. As extirpation of the Parotid Gland, has given rise to much controversy on this side of the Atlantic, I was anxi- ous to ascertain the estimate placed upon the measure by surgeons abroad—and therefore made it a subject of dili- gent inquiry. As I anticipated, there exists great contra- riety of opinion in relation to the utility of the process, but I found none who doubted its possibility. Indeed, the question seemed to bear almost exclusively upon the first proposition, and while all acknowledge that it is sometimes productive of benefit, yet in the main it appeared to me that the best authorities are rather disposed to abandon its general introduction into practice, but solely on the grounds that in schirrous disease, thatwhich most frequently calls for the performance of an operation, the patient is not radically cured, the complaint returning sooner or later and ulti- mately is the cause of death. * * It may not be uninteresting to append a list of those who have reported cases of extirpation of the Parotid Gland. It is more than probable, however, that some of the cases thus reported were in reality not parotid, but lymphatic or encysted tumours, occupying the parotid fossa. Acrel, Goodlad, Pamard, Alix, Goyraud, Palfin, Ansiaux, Hecker, Prieger, Beclard, Herel, Roymond, Berndt, Hosack, Ramdolf, Bouyer, Kaltschmied, Randolph, Braambergh, Kirbi, Roux, Burgard, Kleim, Siebold, Carmichael, Lacoste, Soucrampes, Chelius, Lisfranc, N. R. Smith, Cordes, Mott, Sedtmann, Deglond, McClellan, Warren, Eulinberg, Magri, J. M. Warren, Fonthein, Moulinie, Weindhold & Smith, Gansoul, Naegele, Widmer.