The mode of death from acute intestinal strangulation and chronic intestinal obstruction / by Thomas Bryant.

  • Thomas Bryant
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1885
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    [Reprinted for the Author from the British Medical Journal, Nov. aj, 1884. LlLDS cS^WEST-RlDINC. MLiJICO-ClllRURCICAL SOCIETY HARVEIAN LECTURES ON THE MODE OF DEATH FROM ACUTE INTESTINAL STRANGULATION AND CHRONIC INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION. Delivered before the Harveian Society of London. By THOMAS BRYANT, F.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Surgery at, Guy's Hospital. LECTURE I. The Mode of Death in Intestinal Strangulation and Intus- susception, WITH Reference to their Treatment, I propose, in the following lectures, to bring before you some points connected with abdominal surgery, and to consider, first, how death is occasioned in intestinal strangulation and intussusception ; and, secondly, how life is destroyed by intestinal obstruction. The patho- logical inquiry will be illustrated by cases,i and followed by some prac- tical conclusions. Hitherto, it has been the custom to place cases of strangulation of the bowel amongst those of obstruction, indeed, to consider them as only one of its forms. There is, I am convinced, in this arrange- ment a grievous error; since, in strangulation of the intestine, obstruc- tion is only one of its symptoms, but not the cause of danger or of death ; whereas, in cases of intestinal obstnaction, the obstruction is the prominent and dangerous feature, and from it, or it chiefly, the con- secutive changes are brought about. From this proposed plan of procedure, you will see that the basis of 1 All the cases quoted in these lectures, unless otherwise exjirossly mentioned, have been under my own care, or that of my medical and surs,'iciil colleagues at Guy's Hospital. The })os£ mo;'(e7B book has been resorted to for illustrative cases in preference to the clinical, since, from the former tlie most unquestionable data are obtained, A
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