CALCUTTA NATIVE HOSPITAL. EXCISION" OF THE ELBOW; RECOVERY THE CARE OF DR. BAILLIE. Reported
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UNDER
Mr. J. Hinder.
a healthy native woman, aged 25, by occupation an brought to the Hospital by the Police on tho 6th October, 1868, having been murderously assailed by her paraShe was insensible from loss of blood, having received mour. no less than seventeen wounds (some of them very severe) inflicted with a butcher's knife, the principal cut, about 3 inches long, being over the back of the left elbow-joint, which it fully laid open, exposing the condyles of tho humerus, the olecranon,
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and the head and neck of the radius. An attempt to save tho limb having been determined upon, the wound was enlarged, and the ends of the three bones sawn off by means of the chainNot an artery required to be tied or twisted, nor were any saw. A few sutures brought the wound tonerves interfered with. gether, which was covered by a pledget of lint dipped in carbolic oil (1 part to 8). The subsequent treatment was that usually employed in similar cases; no bad symptoms followed, and the patient left the Hospital on the 25th March, 1869, with a fair and flexible false joint.
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UNDER
Mr. J. Hinder.
a healthy native woman, aged 25, by occupation an brought to the Hospital by the Police on tho 6th October, 1868, having been murderously assailed by her paraShe was insensible from loss of blood, having received mour. no less than seventeen wounds (some of them very severe) inflicted with a butcher's knife, the principal cut, about 3 inches long, being over the back of the left elbow-joint, which it fully laid open, exposing the condyles of tho humerus, the olecranon,
Peerun,
ayah,
was
and the head and neck of the radius. An attempt to save tho limb having been determined upon, the wound was enlarged, and the ends of the three bones sawn off by means of the chainNot an artery required to be tied or twisted, nor were any saw. A few sutures brought the wound tonerves interfered with. gether, which was covered by a pledget of lint dipped in carbolic oil (1 part to 8). The subsequent treatment was that usually employed in similar cases; no bad symptoms followed, and the patient left the Hospital on the 25th March, 1869, with a fair and flexible false joint.
