A case in which the common carotid artery was successfully ligatured / by James McNicoll.

  • McNicoll, James.
Date:
1861
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Credit: A case in which the common carotid artery was successfully ligatured / by James McNicoll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE IN WHICH THE COMMON CAROTID ARTERY WAS SUCCESSFULLY LIGATURED. Reported by Samuel Smith, M.R. C.S, Assistant Resident Surgeon at the Castlemaine Hospital. NAME, ETC. Alexander Monigitti, aged 28 years, a native of Switzerland, residing at Daylesford, was admitted into the Castlemaine Hospital, 21st November, 1860. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS. He states that about three weeks ago while gam¬ bling with some Italians a dispute arose about the payment of some “ nobblers,v and a fight then ensued, in which Monigitti was severely wounded. In about half an hour afterwards Monigitti was found outside the shanty weltering in his blood.