A Case of Wound of Axillary Artery: Ligature of the Vessel above and below the Seat of Injury: Death

On the 28th November an old Mahomedan cultivator, of about 50 years, was admitted as an in-patient in the hospital with a gaping wound across the right armpit, attended with recurrent hremorrhage. The wound was produced accidentally ten days ago in the following way. Whilst leading two bullocks tied to each end of a rope, the loop of which was hanging down from his right shoulder, the animals were suddenly startled by the flight of a bird, and in their attempt to run away the rope got entangled to the handle of a sickle