Observations on aneurism : and its treatment by compression / O'Bryen Bellingham.

  • Bellingham, O'Bryen, 1805-1877.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Observations on aneurism : and its treatment by compression / O'Bryen Bellingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    surgery that such a burlesque of this history, as is contained in a late number of the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medi- cine (from the pen of the editor of that journal) should go abroad uncommented on ; and be supposed either to contain a faithful record of the principal facts of the history of the cure of popliteal aneurism by compression; or to represent the views of those who are at all conversant with the literature of the subject. The early history of the treatment of aneurism by compression is intimately mixed up and associated with that of the treatment of wounds of arteries : and it would be difficult to trace the remote history of the one proceeding without entering into some details respecting the other. The teims pressure or compression, likewise, have been applied to proceedings which differ materially from one another, both in the agents used, and in the manner in which they were employed; though all agreeing in one point, that pressure was somewhere or somehow applied. Thus, sometimes the pressure was applied to the aneuris- mal sac, or to the aneurismal sac, and the artery leading to it; and where this was impossible from the situation of the aneurism, to the capillary side of the tumour, or the entire limb was at the same time compressed. The pres- sure, in some cases, was effected by compresses and tight bandages; in others, the compresses were soaked in styptics, and plasters of various kinds were applied; or the compression was maintained by the use of instruments or apparatuses of various forms and construction. The several methods which come under this name, or which have been at different periods recommended or employed, may, however, be conrprised under the following heads:— 1. Where the pressure was applied directly upon the aneu- rismal sac.