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Excerpt from History of the Ligature Applied to the Brachio-Cephalic Artery: With Statistics of the Operation (Paper Read Before the Tennessee State Medical Society, May, 1856)
Three small arteries were tied during the operation; one under the sternum, near the mastoid muscle, and may have been a branch of the internal mammary; the second also near the inner edge Of the same muscle, supposed to be the most descending branch of the superior thyroid; and the third, which was divided in raising the sterno-thyroid muscle, a branch of the inferior thyroid. Two to four ounces of blood was the quantity estimated to have been lost.
Three sutures and straps Of adhesive plaster were employed to coaptate the wound. The Operation lasted an hour, and was well borne by the patient; the pulse was not altered by it; the only difference noticed after it was in the temperature being a little lower in the right than in the left arm. But towards evening even this could not be perceived.
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