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

  • Key, C. Aston (Charles Aston), 1793-1849.
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 / by C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the umbilicus. The intestine was imme- diately released from pressure; for, by ap- plying a very moderate force to the tumour, the intestine immediately slipped up; and a small piece of omentum that remained, was readily returned by a little farther manipulation. Her bowels were freely relieved after the operation, without the aid of medicine ; and she continued to go on well, till the 22d, with the exception of a slight tendency to diarrhoea. On this day a blush of erysipelas was perceptible about the wound, and the discharge assumed an ichorous appearance. Under the use of quinine, and a mild form of opiate at bed time, she mended, and by the 29th the wound began to form healthy granulations. On the 8th of January, a truss was applied, the wound being nearly cicatrised. The occurrence of erisypelaswas evidence of that disposition to inflammatory action, which so often renders the operation for hernia fatal. If the intestine had been ex- posed, the inflammatory disposition would, probably, have shown itself in the form of