Practical information on inflammation of the bowels and strangulated rupture : in which a new method of treating those disorders is faithfully communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on inflammation of the bowels and strangulated rupture : in which a new method of treating those disorders is faithfully communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    body is difordered, and predifpofed to fever and inflammation ; that the previous general relaxa¬ tion, and the flow adlion of the bowels, render them peculiarly liable to fall out of their natural fituations, where paffages remain through which they have formerly efcaped; and that, having fallen into this unnatural fituation, the invaria¬ ble confequences of fuch a conflrained pofition are fufficient to account for the fever, already lurking in the habit, being excited to commence, and peculiarly to diredt its force to the incar¬ cerated bowel, when inflammation, pain, and all the horrors of the difeafe immediately attend. If this idea be correct, it will follow, then, that if the intefline be by any forcible means returned, or if recourfe be had to the knife, and the protruded part be replaced after an opera¬ tion, flill that will not enfure the patient's life, nor place him in fafety> unlefs the fever and in¬ flammation he fuhdued alfo. When the inflammation is already fully formed, and to a confiderable degree, if, by an b 2 operation, c