A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key.

  • Charles Aston Key
Date:
1833
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Credit: A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that it is an exception to the general result of his cases, and that success is not always to be obtained. Unfortunately, a surgeon who, from ex- perience, is aware of the great risk to which the operation exposes his patient, is compel- led either to shrink from his duty, and trust to the effect of remedies which past ex- perience has proved to be unavailing, or to. perform an operation which, under existing circumstances, instead of giving relief, will only tend to aggravate the inflammation. It may be contended, that the operation, when performed early, is, according to the testimony of the most experienced surgeons, generally successful. Mr. Hey emphatically observes, “I have now performed the opera- tion forty times, and have often had occasion to lament that I had performed it too late, but never that I had performed it too soon.” And, therefore, it may be asked, Why should the operation be deferred until in- flammation has taken place? There are various causes of delay that do not rest with the surgeon. In some instances, the ex- istence of the tumour is undiscovered until | sit x
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