A memoir on strangulated hernia : from cases occurring in the London Hospital / by Nathaniel Ward.

  • Ward, Nathaniel, 1820-1866.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A memoir on strangulated hernia : from cases occurring in the London Hospital / by Nathaniel Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Of the four fatal cases in which the sac was unopened, the following are the brief particulars :—The first, a woman, aged 73, died on the nineteenth day from ex- haustion. The second, aged 73, died from a similar cause on the sixth day. The third, a woman aged 72, died on the fourth day from a low form of peritonitis, and had been suffering for many years from troublesome prolapse of the uterus, which had much reduced her prior to the operation. The fourth case was that of a woman, aged 56, who died on the third day after the operation, from peritonitis and a perforating ulcer, strangulation having existed for three days. Among the cases that recovered, of those in which the sac was not opened, two only out of the 25 require notice :— 1. A fat, unhealthy woman, aged 69, died from pulmo- nary apoplexy two days after the healing of the wound. 2. A man aged 64. Strangulation had existed for fourteen hours on the right side, and he recovered on the thirteenth day. He had had a strangulated hernia on the left side a year or two before, and had been ope- rated on in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The right rup- ture occurred shortly after leaving St. Bartholomew's in consequence of a severe jerk while working. Since then he wore a double truss. The above series of cases of femoral hernia, in which Petit's operation was performed, although peculiarly satis- factory to the surgeon in consequence of their general favourable termination, lose much in interest when com-