Tranactions of the Pathological Society of London (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...in the strict sense of the word, did not exist. The bowels were costive, but they still acted, and the stomach, although irritable, was far from being so intolerant of all ingesta as usually is the case when the intestinal canal has become suddenly occluded. In all probability, a certain amount of the fcal remains of food had passed through the invaginated tract during the first three months at least of the illness, and the kind of food taken had been that which would afford but very little of refuse. The attacks of pain had not been of a character likely to lead to any definite opinion; they were referred to the hypochondriac region, and might have depended on various causes, more likely to exist than the condition actually present. Tho mode in which the patient was accustomed to seek relief, by suspending himself by his hands, is well worthy of note, more especially as a similar one is recorded as having been resorted to in a former case of like nature. The position alluded to is one in which not improbably some dragging back of intussuscepted gut might be effected, and thus, supposing that the paroxysm had been caused by the invagination of an additional portion, relief might be obtained. Mr. Hutchinson, 6th of October, 1855. 8. Internal Strangulation of Small Intestine. J. H. set. 56, a patient in the Somerset County Lunatic Asylum, under the care of Dr. Boyd, was attacked on the l6th of November, 1855, with general febrile symptoms, abdominal pain, and constipated bowels. No external swelling or circumscribed tenderness existed. On the third day of his illness there was vomiting, and the bowels became relieved under the use of injections. The peritoneal inflammation continued, and the patient died on the fifth day, exhausted...