A Treatise on Ruptures, Containing an Anatomical Description of Each Species - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1150139757 ISBN 13: 9781150139758

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1810 Excerpt: ... CHAP. XIII. TREATMENT OF RUPTURES, IN WHICH THE INTESTINE HAS MORTIFIED. Section I. Symptoms of Mortification and Frognosis. M. HE contents of a hernia are often affected with gangrene, when no symptom or appearance existed previously to the operation, which could lead to the suspicion of this occurrence. Here the integuments and hernial sac are perfectly healthy. It happens, however, more frequently, that the superincumbent parts are affected, in consequence of the mortification of the hernial contents; and the integuments are largely included in the sloughs. The occurrence of mortification is generally shewn bv the tumour losing its tension, and becoming soft, so that it pits on pressure; the integuments, which arc very red, become livid, and afterwards black in one or more spots, and the cuticle separates; the cellular membrane is emphysematous; the pain, vomiting, and hiccough cease; the pulse sinks; lastly, the integument give way, and a discharge of wind and fecal matter in a highly fetid state ensues.-When the stricture is very tight, the gut sometimes bursts, and the feces escape into the abdomen. Some times the rupture spontaneously recedes, and fetid stools are passed. The patient is generally exhausted before the complaint has proceeded to this extent; but the powers of nature occasionally support him through this dangerous state, and even effect a complete recovery. Though the numerous instances of these events, which occur iu the records of surgery, should lead us to persevere in the use of such means,' as may he likely to aid the salutary operations of nature, they ought not to raise any sanguine hope of similar results in general practice, nor lead us to give any other prognostic, but such as would prepare the minds of friends for the fatal t...

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• ISBN 10: 1150139757
• ISBN 13: 9781150139758
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