Hemorrhage from the Palatine 

 Artery. 



Hemorrhage from the palatine artery is always 

 serious, requiring prompt and efficient measures for its 

 control. How disagreeable a task it is, to treat such 

 an occurrence can be learned only from experience. 

 However, one case is usually enough to demonstrate 

 this part of the matter. 



The veterinarian who has had the good fortune, 

 (or possibly misfortune would be the better term) to 

 treat several of these hemorrhages soon makes up his 

 mind that it is far from being a simple matter. The 

 teaching in college and in our text books on this sub- 

 ject has been far from satisfactory and is really worthy 

 of but little notice. 



As with so many other apparently trivial conditions, 

 hemorrhage from the palatine artery is given but lit- 

 tle attention in the various departments of surgery. 

 The fact is that this hemorrhage is a true clinical 

 entity, occuring with more or less regularity in a quite 

 typical form. This is especially true in localities 

 where old time empirics still predominate, and ''bleed- 

 ing" is resorted to for most ailments. Probably nine- 

 ty-five per cent of all cases of hemorrhage from the 

 palatine artery which come into the veterinarian's 

 hands are the result of empirical treatment either by 



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