Cases of perforation of the stomach from simple ulceration : with deductions therefrom, relative to the character and treatment of that lesion / by Edwards Crisp.

  • Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Cases of perforation of the stomach from simple ulceration : with deductions therefrom, relative to the character and treatment of that lesion / by Edwards Crisp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF PERFORATION OF THE STOMACH. Several treatises upon this disease have been written by continental physicians during the last fifteen years. The subject, however, has been but little attended to in this country ; for, although a large amount of infor- mation exists in the medical journals in the form of cases and short essays, but few communications of a comprehen- sive character are to he met with. Among the few I may mention, particularly, the papers of Messrs. Taylor and Williamson, the former in the “ Guy’sHospital Reports” (1829), and the latter in the “Dublin Journal” (1841). The various authors whom I have consulted differ much respecting the nature, cause, &c., of these lesions, and the discrepancies appear to me to arise from the very common error amongst medical writers of drawing conclusions from a few facts. I shall endeavour to avoid this by selecting a large number of cases from which I can deduce my inferences. Perforations of the stomach arise from three causes, viz, external violence, poison, and from simple or malignant ulceration. The perforation from the action of the gastric juice I believe is invariably a post-mortem occurrence, and therefore is not included. Sponta- neous perforations of the stomach have been divided into two classes, viz., those arising from malignant disease, and those produced by simple ulceration. It is my intention in the present paper to notice only the B