On the relief of excessive and dangerous tympanites, by puncture of the abdomen : a memoir / by John W. Ogle.
- John Ogle
- Date:
- 1888
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Credit: On the relief of excessive and dangerous tympanites, by puncture of the abdomen : a memoir / by John W. Ogle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![attributed the death of the patient to the disturb- ance of the vital powers, in consequence of the mechanical injury of the intestine resulting from its extraordinary distension. A very interesting fact connected with this case was the absence after death of any apparent cause of obstruction, or of the enor- mous hypertrophy of the muscular wall of the bowel [6]. In 1852, Labric published a thesis ( De la Ponc- tion abdominale dans la Tympanite') in which he put together the various facts which he had met with in connection with the operation, and relates his conclusions deduced from them. He recognises the two varieties of tympanites, peritoneal and intestinal, and gives their causes, symptoms, and treatment, quoting especially Chomel* and Piorryf as to the source of the gas in the former variety. He notices that the operation is often resorted to, successfully, by veterinary surgeons, in the case of cattle on the point of death, after they have eaten large quantities of moist food, especially trefoil. He observes that, in man, not only does the operation, when necessarily resorted to, give relief to distressing symptoms, but that it renews to the distended and enfeebled intes- tine its contractile power, and enables it to discharge its contents, in the same way as, in retention of urine, the bladder's power of contraction is restored by drawing off the contents,ff and as the contraction * ' Diet, de Med.' Art.' Pneumatose.' f ' Diet, des Sciences Med.5 ff In a note to his memoir alluded to above (p. 13), M. Mothe remarks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070830_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
