A probationary surgical essay on carotid aneurism : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Thomas Inglis.

Date:
1817
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    ternal Aneurism or not. If we feel convinced that such exist, the operation ought not to be performed. Surgeons ought not, however, to be deterred from the operation, except the evidence of the existence of in ternal Aneurism be so strong as to leave little doubt on their minds. When the patient is of an advanced age, when the tumour has been of long continu- ance, and is so large as to leave little space for securing the artery, and when there is an appearance of gangrene on its surface, the chance of success from an operation is not great. On the contrary, if the tumour is small, and situated high up in the neck, if the pa- tient is middle aged, if he is of a spare habit t of body, and is not of an irritable constitution, we have every reason to believe that an ope- ration will prove successful.