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OPERATIONS AT THE HOSPITALS.
678 did not show. Like MARRYAT’S wet-nurse, who could not deny that she had had a
PUNCTURE OF THE BRACHIAL ARTERY.
child, but
declared that it was a very little one, the doctor said, amidst endless laughter, that he was a shareholder, but to a very small extent; he only held ten shares, and never attended the meetings. Why, Had did they talk of patent medicines?
valuable compounds been patented ? Was not JAMES’S powder a patent medicine ? Then, when Dr. Cownrt stated that the Company had JE1700 invested in patent
not many
medicines,
he
was
much
misleading
the
To the EC2t0?‘ of THE LANCET. S!R:—When I practised as a surgeon at in Herefordshire, my assistant, the late Mr. Mann, surgeon, of Leamington, opened the brachial artery instead of a vein. The artery ran superficially under the skin, and, the ligature being applied, he, of course, felt no pulsation in the vessel. Seeing what was done, I allowed the requi. site quantity of blood to flow, and afterwards used compression, and the incision in the artery healed perfectly, and left no aneurism. I recommend young surgeons to feel for the pulsation of an artery before the ligature is applied. If they will do this, they will not fall into error. I am, Sir, your obe-
Ledbury,
stock of magnesia meeting. Why, was worth more than that. SirjAMES IV1UR- dirtnt servantC. SELWYN. RAY here caught the ex-President’s eye, and 34, Clarence-square, Cheltenham, was instantly upon his legs. He entered into July 28, 1840. a very elaborate detail of the virtues of magnesia in a concentrated liquid form, and EMOLLIT MORES, NEC SINIT ESSE FEROS.their
(America) many excellent experiment by administering a In this country men fear the power of the demagogue to to the meeting, which, though a mislead the people. I should like to see the little nauseous, had the effect of neutralising most splendid orator who ever bent apeople to his will, address an assemblage of men the acidity of the discussion. who had been instructed in Phrenology from Dr. B -, who laboured under a slight their youth, who had been trained to ana. impediment of speech, pleasantly said, he lyse every word as quickly as it was ut. -]had a communication to make, but it was tered; I should rejoice to witness the attempt of Demosthenes himself, to instigate late ; they had heard an admirable Report such an assembly to deeds of outrage and on Quackery by Dr. COWAN; and Sir JAMES injustice,-that the remedy for all social evils was to plunder the rich, to degrade MURRAY had proved to them that there was the refined and intelligent, and to enthrone nothing like Ma-a-a-a-gnesia-(Hear, ignorance and rude propensity in places of and power. The orator would be hear, hear, hear, and great laughter)-so he authority committed to a lunatic asylum by a unaniwould dissolve the meeting. mous vote of the people whose reason he We shall devote an article next week to had thus insulted, in the full conviction that he was insane.—Dr. Combe, at Boston. the Report of the Committee on Medical Reform, and the important discussion to IN a rare little book, entitled, The which it gave rise. Medical Review, a Poem, being a Panegyric on the Faculty of Dublin; Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, marching in OPERATIONS AT THE HOSPITALS. Procession to the Temple of Fame ; by John Gilborne, M.D.; Dublin, 1775;" at To the Editor.-SIR :-1 beg to call your p.46,line 759, the following verses occur:"John Sproull, chirurgeon of fair town attention to the much-complained-of practice, in some of our public hospitals, of allowing Strabane, Cautious, defends the patient’s back with st1’angers in the area of the theatre to stand so near to the patient as entirely to prevent lawn, Before he lays his epispastic on, the stacdents from obtaining the least view of To keep the blister whole, not let it run. the operation. I allude more particularly to Cambric or lawn on such occasions wear; that I trust University College Hospital. ’Tis better clip your skin than rudely this notice will obtain a remedy for the evil
performed large dose
an
-.
,
from the officers of Your much obliged,
tear;
that establishment.
The force of the cantharides
S. R. G.
University College, July 23,1840.
And in
a
gets through, gentler manner comes to you." Dublin Journal, May, 1840.
PUNCTURE OF THE BRACHIAL ARTERY.
child, but
declared that it was a very little one, the doctor said, amidst endless laughter, that he was a shareholder, but to a very small extent; he only held ten shares, and never attended the meetings. Why, Had did they talk of patent medicines?
valuable compounds been patented ? Was not JAMES’S powder a patent medicine ? Then, when Dr. Cownrt stated that the Company had JE1700 invested in patent
not many
medicines,
he
was
much
misleading
the
To the EC2t0?‘ of THE LANCET. S!R:—When I practised as a surgeon at in Herefordshire, my assistant, the late Mr. Mann, surgeon, of Leamington, opened the brachial artery instead of a vein. The artery ran superficially under the skin, and, the ligature being applied, he, of course, felt no pulsation in the vessel. Seeing what was done, I allowed the requi. site quantity of blood to flow, and afterwards used compression, and the incision in the artery healed perfectly, and left no aneurism. I recommend young surgeons to feel for the pulsation of an artery before the ligature is applied. If they will do this, they will not fall into error. I am, Sir, your obe-
Ledbury,
stock of magnesia meeting. Why, was worth more than that. SirjAMES IV1UR- dirtnt servantC. SELWYN. RAY here caught the ex-President’s eye, and 34, Clarence-square, Cheltenham, was instantly upon his legs. He entered into July 28, 1840. a very elaborate detail of the virtues of magnesia in a concentrated liquid form, and EMOLLIT MORES, NEC SINIT ESSE FEROS.their
(America) many excellent experiment by administering a In this country men fear the power of the demagogue to to the meeting, which, though a mislead the people. I should like to see the little nauseous, had the effect of neutralising most splendid orator who ever bent apeople to his will, address an assemblage of men the acidity of the discussion. who had been instructed in Phrenology from Dr. B -, who laboured under a slight their youth, who had been trained to ana. impediment of speech, pleasantly said, he lyse every word as quickly as it was ut. -]had a communication to make, but it was tered; I should rejoice to witness the attempt of Demosthenes himself, to instigate late ; they had heard an admirable Report such an assembly to deeds of outrage and on Quackery by Dr. COWAN; and Sir JAMES injustice,-that the remedy for all social evils was to plunder the rich, to degrade MURRAY had proved to them that there was the refined and intelligent, and to enthrone nothing like Ma-a-a-a-gnesia-(Hear, ignorance and rude propensity in places of and power. The orator would be hear, hear, hear, and great laughter)-so he authority committed to a lunatic asylum by a unaniwould dissolve the meeting. mous vote of the people whose reason he We shall devote an article next week to had thus insulted, in the full conviction that he was insane.—Dr. Combe, at Boston. the Report of the Committee on Medical Reform, and the important discussion to IN a rare little book, entitled, The which it gave rise. Medical Review, a Poem, being a Panegyric on the Faculty of Dublin; Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, marching in OPERATIONS AT THE HOSPITALS. Procession to the Temple of Fame ; by John Gilborne, M.D.; Dublin, 1775;" at To the Editor.-SIR :-1 beg to call your p.46,line 759, the following verses occur:"John Sproull, chirurgeon of fair town attention to the much-complained-of practice, in some of our public hospitals, of allowing Strabane, Cautious, defends the patient’s back with st1’angers in the area of the theatre to stand so near to the patient as entirely to prevent lawn, Before he lays his epispastic on, the stacdents from obtaining the least view of To keep the blister whole, not let it run. the operation. I allude more particularly to Cambric or lawn on such occasions wear; that I trust University College Hospital. ’Tis better clip your skin than rudely this notice will obtain a remedy for the evil
performed large dose
an
-.
,
from the officers of Your much obliged,
tear;
that establishment.
The force of the cantharides
S. R. G.
University College, July 23,1840.
And in
a
gets through, gentler manner comes to you." Dublin Journal, May, 1840.