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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. II. 
in the Aneurism for the Cure of which Dr. 
Stevens tied the Internal Iliac Artery at Santa 
Cruz in the Year 1812.’® 
In 1830 three parts of the ‘Catalogue of the 
Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons in London,’ 4to, were 
published. No author’s name appears on any of 
the six parts, but Owen was entirely responsible 
for part iv. (1), and there is no doubt that he 
assisted Clift in the preparation of the other parts 
of this preliminary list 
Owen sent his old friend and preceptor. 
Dr. Seed, a copy of this work as soon as it was 
ready, and received the following reply : — 
Lancaster : November 12, 1830. 
‘ My dear Owen, — Accept my thanks for the 
book. I received it with peculiar pleasure, and 
contemplate it as the dawning of a talent which, 
® ‘ Dr. Stevens,’ writes Owen, 
‘ had transmitted an account of 
this operation, the first, he be- 
lieved, which had been per- 
formed on that artery, in 1812, 
from the island of Santa Cruz, 
announcing its success. Doubts 
were entertained and had been 
publicly expressed, as to the 
possibility of reaching so deep- 
seated an artery. The patient, 
restored to health, died in 1822. 
The part of the body concerned 
in the operation was preserved 
in spirits and brought to Eng- 
land by the operator in 1829. 
Dr. Stevens,’ Owen continues, 
‘ at the suggestion of Mr. Law- 
rence, deposited the preparation 
in the museum of the Royal 
College of Surgeons, and, the 
dissection being intrusted to me, 
he reejuested me to communicate 
the particulars to the Society. 
The result of this dissection 
was to demonstrate the fact of 
the application of the ligature 
on the internal iliac artery, and 
its effect on the obliteration of 
the aneurism.’ 
