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THE STARCH BANDAGE IN FRACTURE OF THE PATELLA.
In connexion with the Glasgow Hoyal Infirmary is a dispensary, where advice is given daily, (Sundays excepted,) from two to four P.m. I, with a great many others, attend, but with little satisfaction-for this reason, that particular cases,
present, many able members to the profession of medicine, the church, and the bar. Sir Philip, the subject of our present notice, was bred to the former of these, and at a very early the military branch, serving as an assistantsuch as uterine diseases, we are not allowed to see. If a patient age embraced is brought in for advice, and the surgeon thinks she is labour- surgeon in the disturbed times prior to 1798, and being present ing under some uterine affection, she is requested to remain with the force which repulsed the landing of the French on till the last. Students taking an interest in such cases naturally the west coast of Ireland. Towards the close of that year he remain, but they are told by the surgeon that he cannot allow was nominated surgeon to the Meath Hospital, (one of the inthem to see it. firmaries of Dublin.) This event determined him to relinquish Now, Sir, is it right that medical students, paying upwards of £1000 yearly to this hospital, should be so dealt with, whilst the military for civil practice, and he accordingly settled in the porter, forsooth, is allowed to remain in the room and assist Dublin late in the autumn of 1790. He commenced business at these examinations by means of the speculum? But the in a house in Dawson-street, where he established himself as a grievance does not stop here. One of the dodges con- teacher of anatomy, having a dissecting-room and medical sists in the following-viz., patients snffering from, or those school fitted up in the rear of the premises. Here, in a loft returning to the dispensary with, uterine diseases are carefully over his stable, he first began to lecture, and his style of teachkept from the view of the students. When the general routine of the business is over, the porter enters and says, "Gentlemen, ing, combined with his perfect knowledge of the subjects which all is over," or, " Doctor, that’s the last;" giving the surgeon, he taught, soon obtained for him a large class of pupils, whilst by the former expression, to understand that there are uterine his fame as a surgeon became equally established by his pracIn tice in the wards, and his skill as an operator in the theatre of cases to be examined; by the latter, that there are none. this way, Sir, we are deceived ; and although anxious to learn the hospital. Combined with these professional qualifications, our profession in all its bearings, we are prevented from know- he was possessed of a pleasantness of manner and a winning ing anything of a most important class of diseases. way, which, in the sick room, were irresistible, and he soon I enclose my card as a token of good faith, and beg to sign became a general favourite with the public. It was not, however, in mere conversation, or in the relation of anecdote, that myself, Your obedient servant, Sir Philip Crampton excelled ; his intellectual capacity was A CONSTANT REAPER. Glasgow, June, 1858. equally conspicuous upon whatever subject came before him. mind, well cultivated and well stored in early *,* It certainly is a curious system that admits the presence To a powerful he daily added up to the latest period of his existence. youth, of the porter, and excludes the attendance of the students.- His bodily powers equalled his mental capabilities, and there SUB-ED. L. were not many who, in athletic pursuits, or in the hunting field, could show the way to Philip Crampton. Handsome in THE STARCH BANDAGE IN FRACTURE OF person, gifted in mind, with an off-hand, open, and manly THE PATELLA. To the Editor of THE LANCET. to inform Mr. Edward O’Loughlin, that the SIR,-Allow plan adopted at the Royal Free Hospital, by Mr. Weeden Cooke, in cases of fracture of the patella, has been for years carried on at the Southern Hospital, Liverpool. We used to adopt the same treatment in cases of fractures of the olecranon, and outer and inner condyles of the humerus, taking care to remove the bandage occasionally that passive motion might be employed. During the time I was house-surgeon (nearly two years), all our simple fractures were treated with the starch; and I never remember an unsuccessful case. We also found that the plan answered in treating ununited fractures, many of which we had, from accidents happening whilst at sea on board vessels not carrying surgeons, the fracture consequently remaining unset .until they came into port. Mr. Churton’s (late honorary surgeon to the hospital) practice was to put up simple fractures immediately in starch, or In infants, the plan as soon after admission as convenient. answers well. I have put the starch bandage on at the age of one week for fracture of the thigh done at birth. I may say, that out of some hundreds of cases thus treated, I never remember one turning out badly; and I think my predecessors will bear me out in this statement. I merely write this to show that the provincial are not behind the metropolitan hospitals in their practice. me
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there were few who were his equals. Such was the of whom we now speak. As a surgeon he was ready in resources and original in idea, seldom meeting a difficulty that he did not surmount. As a physician he was peculiarly happy in the selection of remedial measures, not merely looking upon the malady in question as disease per se, but rather regarding the individual in his every relation to life, and often prescribingto an end far remote from the then predominating symptoms. As a man of science he was generally able; but to zoology and comparative anatomy he paid particular attention, regarding them as subservient to the one great end-the preservation of human life. He was a patron of everything that could promote this object. He assisted in the foundation of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, and by his influence obtained a grant of the ground in the Phoenix-park, on which the Zoological Gardens have been established. His public appointments were numerous. He was nominated as Surgeon-general to the Forces in Ireland by the Duke of Richmond, on the death of Mr. Stewart, and subsequently appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty. He was consultant to the majority of the hospitals in Dublin. He was also a member of the Senate of the University of London, although we believehe never took his seat. He was a member of the Senate of the Queen’s University, and thrice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Sir Philip Crampton was raised to the baronetage in 1839, and is succeeded in the title by his eldest son, John Fiennes Crampton, our ambassador to the Court of Russia.
bearing, man
ohedient Rervant-
EDW. C. GARLAND, M.R.C.S., &c., Late Senior Resident-Surgeon, Southern Hospital, Liverpool.
DEATH OF SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON, BART.,
Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS.-The following gentle-
having undergone the necessary examinations for the Diploma, were admitted members of the College at the meet of the Court of Examiners on the llth inst. :IT is our painful duty to record the death of (if not the ablest) ing CLAYTON, RICHARD, Accrington, Lancashire. certainly one of the first surgeons that the sister kingdom has EvArrs, BENJAMIN, Duffryn, Pembrokeshire. ever produced. We allude to Sir Philip Crampton, who died HUGHES, BENJAMIN AUGUSTUS, St. Vincent, West Indies. at his residence, Merrion-square, Dublin, on the 10th instant, KEMP, BENJAMIN, Leeds. McCANN, JOHN, Tonyn, co. Longford. in the 82nd year of his age, having been born on the 7th of MORGAN, WALTER, Bridgend, Glamorganshire. June, 1777. His family were originally English, and resided at OWEN, OWEN, Leamington. South Cottingham, Notts; but leaving this county in the reign RAY, SIDNEY KEYWORTH, Milton, near Sittingbourne, Kent. of King Charles the Second, they settled in Ireland, and reSELOUS, EDRIC, Gloucester-road, Regent’s-park. mained permanently there, furnishing from that period to the WATLING, CHARLES WYAT, Tredington, Shepston-on-Stour. 618 SURGEON-GENERAL TO THE FORCES IN IRELAND.
men,
present, many able members to the profession of medicine, the church, and the bar. Sir Philip, the subject of our present notice, was bred to the former of these, and at a very early the military branch, serving as an assistantsuch as uterine diseases, we are not allowed to see. If a patient age embraced is brought in for advice, and the surgeon thinks she is labour- surgeon in the disturbed times prior to 1798, and being present ing under some uterine affection, she is requested to remain with the force which repulsed the landing of the French on till the last. Students taking an interest in such cases naturally the west coast of Ireland. Towards the close of that year he remain, but they are told by the surgeon that he cannot allow was nominated surgeon to the Meath Hospital, (one of the inthem to see it. firmaries of Dublin.) This event determined him to relinquish Now, Sir, is it right that medical students, paying upwards of £1000 yearly to this hospital, should be so dealt with, whilst the military for civil practice, and he accordingly settled in the porter, forsooth, is allowed to remain in the room and assist Dublin late in the autumn of 1790. He commenced business at these examinations by means of the speculum? But the in a house in Dawson-street, where he established himself as a grievance does not stop here. One of the dodges con- teacher of anatomy, having a dissecting-room and medical sists in the following-viz., patients snffering from, or those school fitted up in the rear of the premises. Here, in a loft returning to the dispensary with, uterine diseases are carefully over his stable, he first began to lecture, and his style of teachkept from the view of the students. When the general routine of the business is over, the porter enters and says, "Gentlemen, ing, combined with his perfect knowledge of the subjects which all is over," or, " Doctor, that’s the last;" giving the surgeon, he taught, soon obtained for him a large class of pupils, whilst by the former expression, to understand that there are uterine his fame as a surgeon became equally established by his pracIn tice in the wards, and his skill as an operator in the theatre of cases to be examined; by the latter, that there are none. this way, Sir, we are deceived ; and although anxious to learn the hospital. Combined with these professional qualifications, our profession in all its bearings, we are prevented from know- he was possessed of a pleasantness of manner and a winning ing anything of a most important class of diseases. way, which, in the sick room, were irresistible, and he soon I enclose my card as a token of good faith, and beg to sign became a general favourite with the public. It was not, however, in mere conversation, or in the relation of anecdote, that myself, Your obedient servant, Sir Philip Crampton excelled ; his intellectual capacity was A CONSTANT REAPER. Glasgow, June, 1858. equally conspicuous upon whatever subject came before him. mind, well cultivated and well stored in early *,* It certainly is a curious system that admits the presence To a powerful he daily added up to the latest period of his existence. youth, of the porter, and excludes the attendance of the students.- His bodily powers equalled his mental capabilities, and there SUB-ED. L. were not many who, in athletic pursuits, or in the hunting field, could show the way to Philip Crampton. Handsome in THE STARCH BANDAGE IN FRACTURE OF person, gifted in mind, with an off-hand, open, and manly THE PATELLA. To the Editor of THE LANCET. to inform Mr. Edward O’Loughlin, that the SIR,-Allow plan adopted at the Royal Free Hospital, by Mr. Weeden Cooke, in cases of fracture of the patella, has been for years carried on at the Southern Hospital, Liverpool. We used to adopt the same treatment in cases of fractures of the olecranon, and outer and inner condyles of the humerus, taking care to remove the bandage occasionally that passive motion might be employed. During the time I was house-surgeon (nearly two years), all our simple fractures were treated with the starch; and I never remember an unsuccessful case. We also found that the plan answered in treating ununited fractures, many of which we had, from accidents happening whilst at sea on board vessels not carrying surgeons, the fracture consequently remaining unset .until they came into port. Mr. Churton’s (late honorary surgeon to the hospital) practice was to put up simple fractures immediately in starch, or In infants, the plan as soon after admission as convenient. answers well. I have put the starch bandage on at the age of one week for fracture of the thigh done at birth. I may say, that out of some hundreds of cases thus treated, I never remember one turning out badly; and I think my predecessors will bear me out in this statement. I merely write this to show that the provincial are not behind the metropolitan hospitals in their practice. me
T
Yeovil, Somerset, June, 1858.
am-
Sir-
vnnr
there were few who were his equals. Such was the of whom we now speak. As a surgeon he was ready in resources and original in idea, seldom meeting a difficulty that he did not surmount. As a physician he was peculiarly happy in the selection of remedial measures, not merely looking upon the malady in question as disease per se, but rather regarding the individual in his every relation to life, and often prescribingto an end far remote from the then predominating symptoms. As a man of science he was generally able; but to zoology and comparative anatomy he paid particular attention, regarding them as subservient to the one great end-the preservation of human life. He was a patron of everything that could promote this object. He assisted in the foundation of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, and by his influence obtained a grant of the ground in the Phoenix-park, on which the Zoological Gardens have been established. His public appointments were numerous. He was nominated as Surgeon-general to the Forces in Ireland by the Duke of Richmond, on the death of Mr. Stewart, and subsequently appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty. He was consultant to the majority of the hospitals in Dublin. He was also a member of the Senate of the University of London, although we believehe never took his seat. He was a member of the Senate of the Queen’s University, and thrice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Sir Philip Crampton was raised to the baronetage in 1839, and is succeeded in the title by his eldest son, John Fiennes Crampton, our ambassador to the Court of Russia.
bearing, man
ohedient Rervant-
EDW. C. GARLAND, M.R.C.S., &c., Late Senior Resident-Surgeon, Southern Hospital, Liverpool.
DEATH OF SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON, BART.,
Medical News. ROYAL COLLEGE
OF
SURGEONS.-The following gentle-
having undergone the necessary examinations for the Diploma, were admitted members of the College at the meet of the Court of Examiners on the llth inst. :IT is our painful duty to record the death of (if not the ablest) ing CLAYTON, RICHARD, Accrington, Lancashire. certainly one of the first surgeons that the sister kingdom has EvArrs, BENJAMIN, Duffryn, Pembrokeshire. ever produced. We allude to Sir Philip Crampton, who died HUGHES, BENJAMIN AUGUSTUS, St. Vincent, West Indies. at his residence, Merrion-square, Dublin, on the 10th instant, KEMP, BENJAMIN, Leeds. McCANN, JOHN, Tonyn, co. Longford. in the 82nd year of his age, having been born on the 7th of MORGAN, WALTER, Bridgend, Glamorganshire. June, 1777. His family were originally English, and resided at OWEN, OWEN, Leamington. South Cottingham, Notts; but leaving this county in the reign RAY, SIDNEY KEYWORTH, Milton, near Sittingbourne, Kent. of King Charles the Second, they settled in Ireland, and reSELOUS, EDRIC, Gloucester-road, Regent’s-park. mained permanently there, furnishing from that period to the WATLING, CHARLES WYAT, Tredington, Shepston-on-Stour. 618 SURGEON-GENERAL TO THE FORCES IN IRELAND.
men,