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

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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$operation, the intefline be reflored to its place in the abdomen, the patient is then only in the lituation of one who is fuffering under a Ample inflammation of the bowels, with the addition of the wound made by the furgeon, and the danger arifing in confequence. * i So long, therefore, as inflammation of the bowels is, in itfelf, a dangerous difeafe, fo long muft the patient flill be in danger, even after the operation has been performed; confequently the operation in hernia is no cure for the diforder which conjiitutes fever and inflanmiation ; neither are any of the other mechanical modes of re¬ duction, as they merely, vi et armis, remove the ftrangulation, but leave the inflammation and fever unfubdued ; which, of themfelves, con- ftitute imminent danger, and too often prove fatal; as is abundantly evident from the numbers which die under the difeafe when Ample, as well as alter the operation for hernia. Under the influence of thefe general ideas I na\e been led, therefore, to conflder both the diforders$