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Title: The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative Surgery
Publisher: Philadelphia : H.C. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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e of Bungay in a case in which dislocationbackwards had resulted from deformity of the spine, and the luxated end,gradually pressing upon the oesophagus, threatened the life of the patient.The bone was cut through by means of a Heys saw about an inch fromits sternal end, and, the sterno-clavicular ligaments having been divided,the portion of bone was forcibly elevated, and at last extracted. Elbow-joint.—In tracing the history of the introduction of excisionof the elbow-joint into surgical practice, we find, as is the case in seve- 256 EXCISION OF JOINTS. rnl otitcr parts, that it was first partially and then wholly done for in-jury, and i)roposed by one Surgeon and eventually practised by anotherfor disease. Tluis in n58 or 1759, Wainman, in a case of compound dislocation ofthe joint, sawed off the lower end of tlie humerus just above the fossaleaving the patient with a flexible and useful arm. Tyne, of Gloucester.did the same, removing two and a half inches of the lower end of the
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Fig. 44,).—Excision of the Elbow, humerus, in a case of compound dislocation. Justamond, of the West-minster Hospital, was the first to operate in a case of diseas£: this hedid in 1775, removing the olecranon and two inches of the ulna. Parkproposed, but did not have an opportunity of practisina:, the completeextirpation of the joint. This was done for the first time by Moreau,senior, in 1794, and again by Moreau, junior, in 1797. Little was donefrom this time until the operation was revived by the Surgeons of Leeds ;in 1818 by Stansfield, in 1819 by Chorley and Hey. It then made rapidprogress in professional estimation, and was specially largely practised EXCISION OF THE ELBOW-JOINT. 257 by Syme and Listen, and the Surgeons of the Edinburgh Infirmary.The excision of the elbow-joint has been more frequently practised thanthat of an) other of the articulations, and the result lias upon the wholebeen far more satisfactory. This operation may be required, 1, for Chronic Disease of the

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