The Surgery of the Innominate Artery

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THE first recorded operation on the innominate artery was performed by Valentine Mott of New York on May 11, 1818. Ligation of this vessel in an attempt to cure a traumatic subclavian aneurysm was followed by wound sepsis, secondary hemorrhage and death. Such was the fate of all subsequent surgical attempts in the preaseptic era until the twentieth recorded case, in which a successful ligation for subclavian aneurysm was performed on May 15, 1864, by Andrew Smyth,1 of New Orleans. This patient was younger, and Fate was kinder. Recovery ensued after a terrifying series of hemorrhages, for the treatment of . . .

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