Intestinal obstruction : its varieties with their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederick Treves.

  • Treves, Frederick, 1853-1923.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Intestinal obstruction : its varieties with their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederick Treves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE QUESTION OF SEX AND AGE. Strangulation by bands and through apertures is a little more common in males than in females, is met with mostly in young adults, and is rare after forty. It is still rarer before ten. Internal Iternioi have been shown to be more common in males, and the greater number of the recorded cases have fallen between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five. Vol- vxd'iis of tlie sigmoid flexure is about four times more common in men than in women. It is most usual between forty and sixty, and is, indeed, rare before forty. Acute intussusception is a little more often met Avith in the male sex. It mostly attacks the young. Fifty per cent, of the cases are under the age of ten years. Strictures are equally common in the two sexes. The non-nialiafnant occur about early middle life. The cancerous stricture is rare before forty. Certain strictures of the intestine are cono-enital. Obstruction due to tumours external to the bowel is obviously more common in women, and in adults of that sex. Obstruction due to impacted gall-stones is more usual in females than in males, and the average age falls between fifty and sixty-five. Fcecal accumulation occurs with greater frequency in women than in men. It is most common in adults and the aged, and is, as may be imagined, not infrequent in the insane and hysterical.