Minutes of the annual meeting of the Medical missionary society in China : and fifteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1848 and 1849 / By Rev. P. Parker, M.D.

Medical Missionary Society in China

Date:: 1850

Credit: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Medical missionary society in China : and fifteenth report of its Ophthalmic hospital at Canton, for the years 1848 and 1849 / By Rev. P. Parker, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$1\ by V\ inches circumference, its diameters \\ and lj} inches; its weight was one ounce and three grains. The loss of blood was not over three ounces. The recovery was rapid and complete. The ti- dings of his success soon reached his companion in suffering who had previously disappeared (on the occasion of the fatal termination of the case of Ngau Chau), and nerved him to return, and on the 2d Jan. 1850, a stone was extracted from the prostate gland and neck of the bladder, three inches in length, and seven in its longest circumference, weighing one ounce. This patient was also under the influence of chloroform, and as he awoke from his state of insensibility, and saw the calculus, held up his thumb with a smile, exclaiming in his broken English, num-pd wan (No. 1.). The details of this case, which has been perfectly successful, are reserved for the next report, to which in the order of time it belongs. Cases or Gomshot akd other Wounds. No. 28,307. July 4lh, 1818. Wound of the abdomen, and protrusion of (he bowels. Li Hung of the district of Sinhwui, a lad eleven years old, the only child of his parents, running along the street on his way to the market with a bowl in his hand, tripped and fell upon the bowl, the fractured edge of which perforated the abdomen on the right side, in a horizontal line a little above the umbilicus, so that the bowel escaped to the extent of a foot. This occurred at 7 o'clock, P.M. At half past 9 o'clock, he was brought to the hospital. The protruded viscus had become distended with flatus, and being strangulated, exuded blood and serum, and was quite livid. After protracted and unsuccessful endeavors to return the bowel, assisted by Dr. Marjoribanks, I enlarged the semilunar aperture with a bistoury, and reduced the intestine. Fortunately very little hemorrhage followed the incision, which was made upward and inward to the extent of about one third of an inch. After waiting sufficiently long to ascertain that nothing was to be apprehended from hemorrhage, the wound was united by sutures and adhesive plaster, and a compress and bandage were gently applied. A calomel and rhubarb aperient was administer- ed. The next morning the pulse was upwards of 100, but after a natural evacuation in the afternoon, it rapidly fell to the natural stan- dard. From this time not an unfavorable symptom occurred, and in ten days the wound healed, and the lad perfectly recovered. Gunshot wounds by Pirates. On the evening of 9th July, 1848, a passenger boat from Hiangshan to Canton was attacked by pirates'. Boats of this class are employed by the dealers in cotton, to bring$