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Excerpt from A Report on the Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury
In 1828, the operation was repeated by Mr. Hewson,1 of Dublin, in a case of caries of the head of the femur. A lunated flap was raised, and the bone was sawn a little above the trochanter minor. The patient died three months afterward, with large purulent col lections extending into the pelvis through an opening in the cotyloid cavity. The third authenticated instance of excision of the head of the femur, and the first example of the performance of the operation for gunshot injury, occurred in 1829. It was a primary operation, performed by Dr. Oppenheim,2 of Hamburg, then in the Russian military service. The history of the case, which was to a certain extent encouraging, obtained but little publicity until printed, eight years after the operation, in Dieffenbach's Journal. As the case marks the introduction of this operation into military surgery, forty years ago, all its details are of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
