A surgical study : gastrotomy and gastrostomy / by J.H. Pooley.

  • Pooley, J. H. (James Henry), 1839-1897.
Date:
1876
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A surgical study : gastrotomy and gastrostomy / by J.H. Pooley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    8/33
    kindred the greatness of the danger, they essay the cure, and ])enetrating that part of tlie ventricle that was wounded to the wound of the muscles of the ahdonien,and there, with one suture, fastened together the gaping ventricle and the said wound in the muscles; the patient enduring thisdolor- t)us kind of cure. At last the wound, little by little, was consolidated, the sick man recovering liis former health and .strength.’’ Leaving these cases of accidental gastrotomy, we will now notice in detail those instances where the stomach has been intentionally opened for the removal of foreign bodies. There are two tables of these cases, one in an article on “ Foreign Ro<lies in the Stomach and Intcstine.s,” by Alfred Poland, (Guy’s Hospital Rc])orts, Tliird Scries, Vol. IX., containing six cases); and the other in the second edition of Holmes’ Surgery, Vol. 11., page 559, in the article on “ Wounds of the Neck,’’ by Arthur E. Durham, which contains seven cases. Of tliese cases the first five are the same in thc^ two tables; the sixth ca.se, in Poland’s table, he regards as questionable, l»cing merely the record from tlie Abridgement of the Philo- .sophical Transactions of the Existence in the Museum of Anatomy Hall at Leyden of a knife, ten inches in length, removed from the stomacli of a man who lived eight years after; and he supiK)ses it may refer to the same case which he makes first in his table, which I shall make first in mine, and the detailed history of which will be given further on. But inasmuch as the size of the knife given is not the same in the two accimnts, being said to be ten fingers’ breadth long in one case, and ten inches in the other, and as the knife removed in the first case is said to be in the library of the Elector of K(pnigsburg, and the second at Leyden, 1 shall regard them as two distinct cases. To these I have been able to add only three others, making a table of only eleven cases in all, the most complete .so far collected. I shall first give the details of .some of these cases, and