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Show or WOUNDED ARTEBIES. .051, 01' IYISG OF ARTERIICS. 239 mit a still greater error; they can tell the holes of the diaphragm, the muscles which surround the shoulder joint, the coats of the testicle, and what is contained in the capsule of Glisson, how many arteries there are in the body, where the CHAPTER X. RULES FOR. 'I‘YING ARTERIES "‘lIBN DIVIDEl) IN \VOUNDS, AND .n._.........- «u. 3-- ._ .w. sa A DESCRIP'I‘ON OF THE MANNER 0F DISSEC'I‘ING FOR THEM. I AM aware that some may conceive that this chapter contains matter foreign to the nature of a system of surgery. I cannot agree with them: I write for my pupils in the first instance, and I know in what they are most apt to err. Although I take all possible care in my lectures to teach them a proper and manly way of studying the arteries, yet; I find them deficient in this branch of surgical anatomy, without which their other knowledge is useless. I thinl‘ I was the . .« .yi;i¢;->.»s. . 0s tincze is situated, on what bone we stand, and what is the use of the urinary bladder!! &c. &c. yet it is not strange that being occupied in the learning of these things, they know not when or how to take up a bleeding arteryse. I conceive that even the title of this chapter may be of some use, by informing those who seem willing to forget that. such things are necessary to be done sometimes, by causing them to reflect that the very first occasion they may have to wet their hands in blood, may be to stop a limniorrhage from the brachial or femoral artery. For young surgeons are often in situations which require decision and dexterity, when the older members are placed where business may be done with deliberation and the characteristic gravity of the profession. -_ , mad-:- ",2," . A A WM first who taught my pupils the anatomy of the arteries in partial views, cut down upon them, and endeavoured to shew them in their natural confusion, and as they are seen in operation. I have done this in the hope that my pupils might not be at a loss when they came to seek for bleeding arteries in the livi1 g body, as are those who have been taught the ana- (' 3"?- 'WWs-f'fi-v- "-4 - m ‘ur tomy of the arteries on dried preparations, or at most shewn them on the injected subject, after the dissection of the parts. When I say I was the first who taught the arteries thus, I know not that it is done even now by others; but I am eer~ tain that the labours of men of the highest ability must be less useful than those of the most ordinary capacity, if the former continue to teach on dry preparations, whilst the latter take this method. Young men are too apt to fancy that when they have got a knowledge of the circle of operations, they are fitted for situations in the navy and army; but the first battle in which they are engaged brings them to a mortifying conviction of their ignorance. There is another class of students who com« CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTERIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR IMI'ORTAYCE TO THE SURGEON. r1: .i CLASS I. Arlerics the wounds of aide/z are neeessarilyflztal. The aorta, and pulmonic arteries-the arteria innominata--- the coeliac-the superior and inferior mesenteric-the splenic -the emulgent-the common iliac, and the external and internal iliac arteries, and the common carotids near the aorta. CLASS 11. Arteries from which the bleeding is fatal If the vessel be not inznzediately stopped. The carotid artery-the femoral artery ---the axillary brav chial arteries-the profunda femoris and popliteal artery. * It is gratifying to find, however, that the college of surgeons are desirous ofdiscountenancing this disgraceful method ofteaching by question, so eon » trary to the true spirit, and that when they discover the monotonous sound ofthis baby lesson, the candidate is brought to the full disclosure of his ignorance, by some pertinent question, directly regarding the knowhdge ot' the dead body 'iv ‘.i won moss», |