The rectum and anus : their diseases and treatment.

  • Charles Bent Ball
Date:
[1887]
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    anus, 24, or 4:71 per cent., recovered; and 27, or 52*9 per cent., were fatal; and the result in 1 case is not stated. Following Amussat's method were 12 cases, 6 recovering and 6 ending fatally ; and following Littre's method were 34 cases, 17, or 51*5 per cent., of which recovered ; ] 6, or 485 per cent., ended fatally ; and there is one case in which the result was not given. Five cases were operated on after Callisen's method, 1 of which recovered and 4 died. In 1 fatal case the method is not mentioned. Of 40 operations for obstruction, 19, or 50 per cent., recovered ; 19 died; and in 2 the result was not mentioned ; 24 were performed by Amussat's method, of which 13, or 59 per cent., recovered, 9 terminated fatally, and in two the result is not men- tioned. Eleven cases were performed after Littre's method, of which 3 recovered and 8 proved fatal; and 3 are recorded by Fine's method, all of which recovered; in one case in which the method is not stated, and in one case in which aT-shaped incision was made, a fatal re- sult followed. Of the 72 cases operated on for stricture, 41, or 57 per cent., recovered, and 31, or 43 per cent., ended fatally. Following Amussat's method were 59 operations with 35 recoveries, 59 per cent., and 24 deaths. After Littre's method were 10 cases, with 4 recoveries and 6 deaths. Callisen's method was performed in one case which recovered, and two cases are given in which the method is not mentioned, one terminating in recovery, the other fatally. Of the 4 operations performed for ulceration, 3 terminated in recovery and 1 in death. All were performed after Amussat's method. And of 9 patients operated on for miscellaneous causes, 5 recovered and 4 died. Amussat's operation was performed in 4 cases, Littre's in 2, and in 2 the method is not mentioned. Arranged in a tabular form showing the various forms of operating, we find the following convenient summary condensed from Batt: