Medico-Chirurgical Transactions

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions

" For this purpose we gave him a compressorium; which, like the old rupture bandages, consisted of a cushion fastened to a strap, which was buckled round the body. On the lower and inner side of the cushion, there was also a strap, which was fastened round the thigh by means of a buckle. The cushion itself consisted of two iron pieces : the uppermost had the form of a common cushion, and was ex...

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions

Wounds, (a work which we cannot too strongly recommend) we shall be very explicit here. " No language, says Dr. Quarrier, can pourtray the horrors of the Leander's cock-pit for a period of thirteen hours. Sixty five men were wounded and several killed by the first and second broadsides ; two poor boys were most dreadfully burned by a red hot shot blowing up the cartridge which one of them was c...

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions

most generally, however, advised to lay open a sinus along its whole course, for the complete discharge of the matter; or to make counter-openings for that purpose. Few mention the effects of compression, and none describe with fulness the mode of applying it. It is to extensive sinuses among the muscles of the thigh, where the benefits of compression are most conspicuous, that Dr. D. confines ...

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. A cardiovascular cluster.

A cluster of papers, important to the history of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, that were published in volume 1 of Medico-Chirurgical Transactions (1809), are discussed. These include articles by Sir Astley Cooper on ligature of the common carotid artery for aneurysm, John Abernethy on mitral stenosis, and Sir David Dundas on acute rheumatic carditis.