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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1867, Vol. 53 During the past summer my attention was directed to the subject of wounds of veins and the arrest of venous hemorrhage by the application of the ligature, a procedure that I have been compelled to adopt in five thigh amputations with uniform success. Extending my investigations, it occurred to me to examine more minutely this much neglected branch of surgical pathology, with its attending and resulting accidents, and to pub lish, possibly, a series of papers on the injuries of special veins, confining my researches to the large trunks of the neck and extremities. Having collected a large mass of facts as a result of that undertaking, this paper, elucidating some points in the surgical pathology of the internal jugular vein, is now presented to the profession as the first attempt that has been made to classify the not very numerous isolated cases of wounds of that vessel. My aim has been to make an impartial examination of all the cases, and deduce from it the most convenient and successful plan of treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.