History of the ligature applied to the brachio-cephalic artery : with statistics of the operation : paper read before the Tennessee State Medical Society, May, 1856 / by Paul F. Eve.

  • Eve, Paul F. (Paul Fitzsimmons), 1806-1877.
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1856
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    HISTORY or THE LIGATURE APPLIED TO THE BRACHIOCEPHALIC ARTERY. (From the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, for July, 1856.) Having recently seen two cases of supposed aneurism of the arteria innominate/,, I have thought, in calling the attention of the Society to one of them, the occasion might be improved by giving an account of the several attempts made to tie this large artery. It may be useful to know what has been the result of these operations, for if, as has been asserted, this vessel has never yet been tied successfully, its history should be written, and henceforth the proceeding interdicted in the practice of Surgery. The account of many, if not most of the surgical operations performed at the present day, extend far back into the earliest periods of medicine. But while this is true of venesection, trephining, amputation, and even of lithotomy, the ligature to arteries for aneurisms is quite a modern one; and in regard to the vessel, the subject of this essay, so recent have been the first operations upon it, that he who dared originally to cast a ligature around this great branch of the aorta, the brachio-cephalic, is still engaged in the active duties of the profession, and is un- doubtely the most skillful operator at the present day. 1