The surgical diseases and injuries of the stomach and intestines / by F. Bowreman Jessettt.

  • Jessett, F. Bowreman (Frederic Bowreman)
Date:
1892
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Credit: The surgical diseases and injuries of the stomach and intestines / by F. Bowreman Jessettt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    extraordinary success which attended his experiments, that I determined in the early part of the year 1889 to prosecute a series of experiments in the same direction myself, which, by the courtesy and with the aid of Pro- fessor Victor Horsley, I was enabled to carry out at the Brown Institute. The results were so successful, that I had no hesitation in publishing them in the columns of the British Medical Journal on July 27, 1889. Many surgeons, especially in America, have since re- peated and modified the operations, as performed by Senn and myself. During the last few months, in a further experimental research which I have been carrpng out at the laboratory of the Eoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons, I have succeeded in establishing several im- portant innovations, notably for the treatment of certain forms of intussusception and enterorrhaphy. In the space of these lectures it will be impossible to more than allude briefly to the different forms of surgical trouble that the stomach is heir to. They may be summed up as carcinoma, sarcoma, ulcers, foreign bodies, fibrous contraction, contraction of cicatrices, and pressure of tumours. Carcinoma and Sabcoma. In dealing with malignant growths of the stomach, it will be necessary in the first place to point out to you the extreme uncertainty in their diagnosis in the early stages, and, having recognised the disease, the excessive difficulty in deciding upon the best mode of treating it. It has been pointed out by Virchow and D'Espine, on the Continent, that deaths from carcinoma of the stomach occur in about 1 per cent, of the total deaths registered. Dr. Welch, of New York, however, in 444,564 deaths from all causes, found cancer of the stomach occurred in