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Title: A text-book of practical therapeutics
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931
Subjects: Therapeutics
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ve pole of the battery, and a large clayelectrode is attached to the negative pole and placed under the back.The current is gradually turned on and increased, during a period offifty minutes, from 5 to 40 milliamperes. The wire is then cut off,the needle removed, and the operation is finished. No accidentduring the operation has been reported when properly performed.It is absolutely contraindicated in fusiform aneurism. The firstresult is relief of pain, usually before the operation is completed. Thesecond result is arrest of the growth, even when the skin over it seems PLATE IV p^tfr^jA^M p^jjl n ty.A £JL?/fl « ..-. 3S J f j; B&. • 1 ■i , 4 f ) V 1; Showing the manner in which the wire is coiled in an aneurism ofthe ascending arch. The specimen is not only split vertically but cuttransversely and the anterior wall lifted and turned back. Most of the clothas been removed to show the wire. In the centre of the aorta is shownthe small orifice which opened into the sac. PLATE V
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Skiagraph showing Wire Coiled in Aneurysmal Sac from aPatient in the Authors Wards. Case reported by Dr. Beardsley AXGIXA PECTORIS 679 about to give way. The third result is prolongation of life in hopelesscases for weeks or years. The writer has performed this operationa large number of times with satisfactory results, although when thegrowth was very large and the aorta severely diseased, the inevitablyfatal result was postponed a comparatively short time, because thesac enlarged in another direction and ruptured or caused death bypressure on vital tissues. (See Plates IV and V.) ANGINA PECTORIS. The exact pathological changes existing in angina pectoris are byno means clearly understood, but without doubt many attacks are dueto spasm of the bloodvessels, which results in distention of the left sideof the heart, which organ is already dilated or enfeebled by dis-ease. Often, too, the coronary arteries have undergone degenerativechanges, thereby increasing the cardiac debility. Remed

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