Colotomy, inguinal, lumbar, and transverse, for cancer or stricture with ulceration of the large intestine / by Herbert W. Allingham.
- Allingham, Herbert William.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Colotomy, inguinal, lumbar, and transverse, for cancer or stricture with ulceration of the large intestine / by Herbert W. Allingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![given, and they can be permitted to take beef- tea ; but a spare and liquid diet is still main- tained. The second day after the operation the dress- ings are removed and the gut is opened. The gut will then be found to be covered with lymph, which, if green protective has not been used, will have grown into the gauze dressings, and will render them hard to remove. As soon as the dressings are off, the gut is secured with a pair of toothed forceps, and is snijjped into with scissors. When a hole is made, the scissors are introduced into the gut, which is freely opened for, say, 1^ inches ; any small vessels that bleed are cli23ped and left on, or may be secured by ligatures. As a rule, they are small and soon cease bleeding. There is generally a good deal of oozing, not from any definite vessels, but from many small points of the cut bowel. As a practical j^oint, I have noticed that the more the clots are wiped away, the more the surfaces ooze ; now, therefore, I let the blood clot, and never attempt to wipe or wash it away. A little dr}^ absorbent wool is then ap- ])lied to the wound, and the whole is covered by some dry gauze. When this has been done, patients can be fed more freely, a commencement being made with a fish diet.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20389292_0187.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
