Researches physiological and pathological: instituted principally with a view to the improvement of medical and surgical practice / [Dr. Blundell].

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878
Date:
1825
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Credit: Researches physiological and pathological: instituted principally with a view to the improvement of medical and surgical practice / [Dr. Blundell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    secured by ligature, and the spleen separated completely from the body on the twentieth day of the wound. On the forty-fifth day the man was discharged from the hospital, cured; and observed to some one about this time, that “ he felt as well as ever he did in his life.” There i was bloody urine till the tenth day, (the only bad symptom which occurred during his recovery,) the kidney having most probably received a wound at the time when the side was laid open. Sly. Three cases may be cited, in which the dropsical ovary was rent, probably extensively, from external violence; they are all that have been brought under my notice, and all terminated favourably. For the full authenticity of the fol¬ lowing I pledge myself: 39. An unmarried lady, with dropsical ovary, was thrown on the ground with violence, from a two-wheeled carriage, and struck the enlarged abdomen with considerable force against a stone which lay by the road side. A large discharge of urine followed; she became permanently freed from her dropsy; and marrying, died with a retroversion of the womb, which could not be replaced. On inspection, the remains of a rup¬ tured ovarian cyst were discovered, retroverting the uterus, which was fixed firmly in the retro- /