Intestinal obstruction / by William Brinton; edited by Thomas Buzzard.

  • Brinton, William, 1823-1867.
Date:
1867
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    OCCASIONAL TERMINATION. cases in general would abundantly justify. Two or three cases, however, which have seemed to me marked examples of the lesion, have made excellent recoveries, and have seemed, as regards the symptoms of mere obstruction, unusually manageable. In these, the total duration of the obstructive symptoms has ranged from six to ten days, and the amendment has been both much more gradual, and much more interrupted, than is usually seen in the cm-e or recovery of obstruction. Here, then, I end this brief survey of the chief varieties of obstruction from a diagnostic point of view—a survey from which I have reluctantly excluded many curious details, as well as all oitation of the numerous interesting cases which abound in the records of the obstructed state. I can only hope that the conclusions I have offered, based as they are on a careful analysis of a large proportion of the facts which have hitherto accumulated towards the study of this important group of maladies, will help to justify the proposition which seems to me independently deducible from the narrower (but deeper) information fur- nished by my own personal experience—namely, that even in the earHest stage of an intestinal obstruction, we may in most instances recognise both its situation, and the group of obstructions to which it belongs. Some of the chief numerical conclusions used in the preceding Lecture are conveniently smmned up by the fol- lowing table: