Identifier: inquiryintoproce01trav (find matches)
Title: An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds and strangulated hernia
Year: 1812 (1810s)
Authors: Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858
Subjects: Intestines Hernia
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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-, the canal is preserved,and the external wound closed over it, as you saythat the artificial anus seldom follows. The case Ihave quoted proves the adhesions of which you speak,the danger of severing these by returning the in-testine forcibly, and the freedom from internal in-jury or extravasation vvhich follows your treatment.The deep situation of the opening in the gut, underPouparts ligament, which rendered the full and freedischarge of the faeces less easy, together with themans bad habit of body which made this dicbargeproduce more irritation and inflammation than wouldprobably have occured in a more healthy subject,alone, I conceive, prevented the process of closurebeing completed. PLATE Iinquiryintoproce01trav
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