A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac : with cases and drawings / by C. Aston Key.

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 : with cases and drawings / by C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    pital) might be enumerated, that tend to defer the operation until inflammation comes on; so that, notwithstanding the excellence of the precept, that the oper- ation cannot be performed too soon, cases will occur in which the surgeon, however prompt he may be, will have to operate under all the disadvantages of peritoneal inflammation. It will no doubt be readily admitted, that the operation of opening the hernial sac and dividing its neck, when performed during the existence of inflammation, tends to increase the inflammatory action, and that, in this condition of the abdominal contents, the operation is attended with no small degree of danger; but some may be not equally disposed to admit, that an in- cision made into a serous cavity not pre- viously inflamed is likely to be productive of a fatal degree of inflammation. I am by no means desirous of representing a wound of a healthy serous membrane as an injury of a highly dangerous nature, and as uni- versally followed by wide-spreading inflam- mation. Wounds of the abdominal cavity