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Excerpt from Inaugural Essay, on the Treatment of Wounds of the Femoral Vein: Submitted to the Examination of Samuel Bard, M.D. L. L. D. President, and the Trustees and Professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New-York; And Publicly Defended for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, on The
Dr. Hodgson has seen two instances in which the com mon iliac vein was obliterated. In one of them, the exter nal and internal iliac veins on the left side were obliterated by the pressure of an aneurism oi' the abdominal aorta; the vena azygos was as large as the little huger, and extended on the left side into the loins, where it received two considerable branches which communicated with the lumbar veins, and with branches which came from the pelvis. In both these cases there were no symptoms which indicated obstruction in the venous circulation during the life of the patients.
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