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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    INSPECTION. less ; pulse 130, very weak ; bowels twice open. Morph. Acet., gr. j. stat. et rep. post 2 hor. 12th, eleven a. m. Countenance very much depressed; pulse 140, very feeble; no hiccough; has passed two fluid stools; extremities cold. 13th. Died at half-past nine this morn- ing. Sectio Cadaveris, twenty-four Hours after Death. On laying open the abdomen, the omentum was found to be thickened and drawn tightly towards the internal ring ; small intestines adherent to internal ring and glued together, thus rendering a small collection of pus at the internal ring cir- cumscribed ; the portion of the ileum which had been strangulated dark-coloured, but not spacelated; a great quantity of fluid fasces escaped from the intestines when they were opened; patches of glandulse aggregates ulcerated, with lymph thrown out on them; the peritoneal coat separ-