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.

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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    DANGER OF THE OPERATION it would almost certainly lead to the de- struction of the patient. That this is not an exaggerated feeling of apprehension as to the dangers attending the operation for strangulated hernia, the records of large hospitals and the memo- randa of private practice, if candidly stated, will abundantly testify; and it cannot but strike the reader of the periodical publica- tions, that they alone furnish sufficient evi- dence of its mortality, in the numerous post- mortem examinations, compared with the number of successful cases detailed in these works. The danger of the operation, it is true, is by no means the same, under all the circumstances attending strangulated hernia; and in some cases, when the oper- ation is performed early, before untoward symptoms have supervened, it is usually attended with a fair prospect of success. But in estimating the risk of an operation, we must not separate the favourable from the unfavourable cases; we should form our judgment upon the nature and the issue of the aggregate cases that present themselves to surgeons in the ordinary