The physiology of digestion, with experiments on the gastric juice / By William Beaumont.

  • Beaumont, William, 1785-1853.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The physiology of digestion, with experiments on the gastric juice / By William Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tent of lint, fitted to the shape and size of the perfora- tion, and confined there by adhesive straps. After trying allthe means in my power for eight or ten months to close the orifice, by exciting adhesive in- flammation in the lips of the wound, without the least appearance of success, I gave it up as impracticable in any other way than that of incising and_ bringing them together by sutures; an operatien to which the patient would not submit. By the sloughing of the injured portion of the lung, a cavity was left as large as a common sized teacup, from which continued a copious discharge of pus for three months. It then, became filled with healthy granu- lations, firmly adhering to the pleura, and healed. Four months after the injury was received, an abscess formed about two inches below the wound, nearly over the cartilaginous ends of the first and second false ribs, very painful, and extremely sore, producing violent symptomatic fever. Qn the application of an emollient poultice it pointed externally. It was then laid open to the extent of three inches, and several shot and pieces of wad were extracted. After which a gum- in the longitudinal direction of the ribs, towards the spine. Great pain and soreness extended from the opening of the abscess, along the tract of the cartilagin- ous ends of the false ribs, towards the spine, with a co- pious discharge from the sinus. In five or six days a cartilage, one inch in ciate in six or seven days more, another, an inch anda half long, and. in about the same length of time, a third, two- inches long,. were discharged. And they continued to come away every five or six days, until five were discharged from