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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    intestine in the sac was found in some parts thickened, and of a dark colour. In the report it does not appear that the intestine was gangrenous, nor that there was any ulceration found in the mucous mem- brane: general peritonitis existed with puriform non-plastic effusion. CASE IV. A woman, aged about fifty, was admitted for an old but small femoral hernia, that had been only a short time strangulated. The taxis with other measures failed, and the operation was promptly performed without any untoward circumstance. The intestine found in the sac was in a healthy and favourable state, and readily return- ed after the division of the stricture. The omentum was strongly adherent to the mouth of the sac, and could not be returned into the abdomen. - She died under symptoms of inflamma- tion in two days. The portion of ileum that had been strangulated was found. at some distance from the sac, and appeared