Case of traumatic spreading gangrene, after severe compound fracture of the leg, for which amputation beneath the trochanter was performed, and the arteries secured by four acupressure needles
Subtitle: the femoral artery, at its giving off the profunda branch, was relieved from pressure at the forty-ninth hour after the operation, with recovery, and remarks
By: by P.D. Handyside
Contributors: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Leg Injuries; Gangrene; Hemipelvectomy; Pressure
Notes: 'Read before the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, 7th Nov. 1860' - t.p.

'Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal, December 1860' - t.p. verso.

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