Fifty cases of abdominal section (second series) / by James B. Hunter.

  • Hunter, James B. (James Bradbridge), 1837-1889.
Date:
[1886]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fifty cases of abdominal section (second series) / by James B. Hunter. 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.

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    mained was drained. The abdominal cavity was carefully closed and the walls of the tumor were secured in the wound. The patient made an excellent recovery. On June 15th there was only a small sinus, about two inches deep, remaining, and it was gradually filling up. Case XLIX.—See Case XXVI. The patient, only two weeks after the operation, felt herself entirely relieved from a certain pain that she had experienced for months before. It is of course much too early to form any opinion as to what the ultimate re- sult will be. Case L.—This patient might have recovered had not bron- chitis set in. The operation was longer than usual, in conse- quence of the attempt to close the uterine pedicle by the intra- peritoneal method. A wedge-shaped portion was removed and the edges were accurately adjusted by two sets of sutures, deep and superficial. On relaxing the ligature, there was so much haemorrhage that it was necessary, though other efforts were made to control it, to reapply the elastic ligature and secure the pedicle outside, transfixing it with long needles in the usual way. The post-mortem showed some peritonitis, bronchitis, and hy- postatic pneumonia in the lower portion of both lungs.
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