A treatise on obstructed and inflamed hernia: and on mechanical obstructions of the bowels internally ... With an appendix containing additional cases and observations, illustrated by diagrams and also strictures on the remarks of reviewers / By Henry Stephens.

  • Stephens, Henry (Surgeon)
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on obstructed and inflamed hernia: and on mechanical obstructions of the bowels internally ... With an appendix containing additional cases and observations, illustrated by diagrams and also strictures on the remarks of reviewers / By Henry Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 abated; her countenance now wore a less anxious appearance, but her pulse continued very low and fluttering, and she still felt a great sense of sinking, but rather less than usual. She continued in this manner for three days, slowly improving. I gave her aperient medicines and injections, which did not operate very freely. On the third day I gave her a strong dose of aperients, which produced copious discharges; the pulse after this imme¬ diately began to rise, the sense of sinking almost instantly went olf, and she rapidly recovered. The necessity, or at least the utility, as Sir Astley Cooper has always inculcated, of freely purging a patient after an operation for hernia, is in this case remarkably shewn; the sense of sinking, and the alarming depression of the vital powers, are the effect of a suspension of the natural function, and, until there is a resump¬ tion of the peristaltic action, the patient does not thoroughly revive. The administration of a brisk purgative, and a copious evacuation from the bowels, appeared almost instantly to remove the sense of sinking, and depression of the pulse; yet, I should think the restoration