Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir.

  • Gribble, J. D. B. (James Dunning Baker), -1906.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nature of sub- stances exfera- vasatetl into ab- dominal cavity. Length of time deceased survi- ved after the accident. Cause of death. Injuries to the abdomen. abdomen by pieces of wood ; in 1 or 10 per cent, a person was run over by a carriage ; in 1 or 10 per cent, it resulted from a fall on a large piece of timber ; in 1 or 10 per cent, of the cases a person was jammed between a boat and a pontoon ; and in 1 or 10 per cent, a man was crushed between two railway trucks. Ten or 90'9 per cent, were adult native males, and 1 or 9 per cent, was a Eurasian boy. In 2 or 181 per cent, the intestines were ruptured in two places; and in 9 or 81*9 per cent, in one. In 3 or 27-2 per cent, faecal matter and fluid were found in the abdominal cavity ; in 2 or 18*1 per cent, faecal matter and blood ; in 2 or 18*1 per cent, no extravasation had taken place ; in 1 or 9 per cent, only blood was found ; in 1 or 9 per cent, blood and fluid ; in 1 or 9 per cent, faeces, fluid, and blood ; and in 1 or 9 per cent, faeces alone. 210. One or 9 per cent, died in seven hours ; 1 or 9 per cent, in twelve hours ; 2 or 18*1 per cent, in twenty-four hours ; in 1 or 9 per cent, in twenty-nine hours ; 2 or 18 1 per cent, in thirty hours ; 1 or 9 per cent, in fifty-eight hours ; 1 or 9 per cent, in three days ; 1 or 9 per cent, in five days, and 1 or 9 per cent, in eight days. 211. In 9 or 818 per cent, the cause of death was peri- tonitis, and in 2 or 18 1 per cent, it resulted from shock. 212. Incised wounds and contusions on the abdomen are likely to be of a very dangerous nature, owing to the slight protection afforded by the outer covering and the ease with which the vital organs may be affected. A blow on the upper part of the abdomen, the pit of the stomach, may cause instant death without producing laceration or contusion of any organ. This effect is generally ascribed to concussion of the semi-lunar ganglia* of the sympathetic! nerve. A blow * The semi-lunar ganglion is a group of nerve-cells situated in the upper and back part of the abdominal cavity and supplying nerve influence to the vessels of the organs contained in the abdominal cavity. + The sympathetic nerve here referred to is a double chain of nerve ganglia passing down one on each side of the front of the spinal column.