A case of wound with protrusion of the stomach / by Benjamin Travers.

  • Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1825]
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Credit: A case of wound with protrusion of the stomach / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r* A Case of Wound with Protrusion of the Stomach. By Benja- min Travers, F. R. S. Surgeon to St Thomas’s Hospital, and Honorary MembejjW the Royal Medical Society of Edin- burgh. Communicated to one of the Editors of the Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science. Dear Sir, X transmit you a case, which appears to me worthy to be re- corded, of wound with protrusion of the stomach, for inser- tion in the first number of the Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science. To this communication I have added a few references to wounds and apertures of this viscus, under the several forms in which they occur, with such cursory observations as the sub- ject suggested. Accept my best wishes for the prosperity of your undertaking, and believe me, Yours, with much respect, Jk.u.2&7i- Benj. Travers. BimTOu Street, Berkley Square,? December 7. 1825. 3 Mary George, aged 53, of delicate habit of body, and mother of nineteen children, at noon, on Thursday the 18th of October 1819, in a fit of despondency, inflicted upon herself, with a razor, a transverse wound, dividing the parietes of the abdomen, to the extent of three inches, a little below the um- bilicus, in a line inclining obliquely downwards from left to right. There were also two superficial wounds a little below the former. On her admission into St Thomas’s Hospital, about half past six o’clock of the same day, the greater part of the large cur- vature of the stomach, the arch of the colon, and the entire large omentum, were protruded and strangulated at the wound. Upon further examination, the omentum was discovered to be detached from the stomach to a considerable extent; and two wounds appeared on this viscus, the one a peritoneal graze, a- bout half an inch in length, the other a perforation of its coats, admitting the head of a large probe. A considerable quantity of mucus was observed to issue from this opening. At the time of her admission she was exceedingly faint and exhausted, having lain concealed near six hours before her deplo- rable situation was discovered by her family. Pulse 102, and irregular, countenance pale and dejected, surface of the body moderately warm, little pain in the abdomen, diaphragm irn-