A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key.

  • Key, C. Aston (Charles Aston), 1793-1849
Date:
1833
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Credit: A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the intestine allowed to remain in the sac after the division of the stricture. She died before the end of the second day. The intestine was of a dark dusky olive colour, but free from adhesions; the intestine above the stricture highly vascular, and dilated. Effusion of plastic lymph was found on the peritoneal surface of the in- testines. CASE III. A stout middle-aged man, admitted for a strangulated inguinal hernia of short duration, but rendered so tender by the patient’s own attempt to reduce it, that farther employment of the taxis was deemed inexpedient. An incision was made upon the sac, and a portion of intestine exposed. Some difficulty occurred in returning it, and in the attempt, some additional por- tions descended : the convolution that was found in the sac was thickened, and not re- turned by the operator, who thought that it was ulcerated internally. Inflammation came on, and he sunk in two days. The