A Report On Amputations At The Hip Joint In Military Surgery

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Excerpt from A Report on Amputations at the Hip-Joint in Military Surgery: July 1, 1867 About this period, according to tradition, another amputation at the hip-joint was performed in England by Henry Thomson, surgeon of the London Hospital.3 It is not recorded, Mr. Curling states, on the books of the hospital.' It is supposed to have been a speedily fatal case, and the one probably witnessed by Pot-t, and which led to his emphatic condemnation of this operation. For the next twenty years amputation at the hip-joint was commonly described in systematic books of surgery, and demonstrated on the dead subject by surgical lecturers; but we find no instances Of its performance on the living. The next example of the Operation on record, and the first instance of its performance for gunshot injury of the higher part of the femur, occurred in the French army of the Rhine, in 1793. The Operator was the illustrious Larrey, then and thenceforward a zealous advocate of the Operation. The patient bore the operation well,5 and several hours afterwards his condition was most satisfactory; but it was then necessary that he should follow the army in a precipitate march of more than twenty-four hours duration, in the depths of winter, and he died probably from the exposure and fatigue. It would be superfluous to recapitulate the earnest arguments appended to his report Of this case by Larrey, with which he insisted upon the introduction Of this operation into military surgery. They are referred to in most modern surgical treatises, and are given in full in Cooper's Surgical Dictionary, and other readily accessible works. On their publication amputation at the hip-joint became a recognized resource in military surgery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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