Surgical aspects of dysentery including liver-abscessH. Frowde, 1920 - 157 pages |
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abdominal pain abscess cavity acute amœbæ amoebiasis AMOEBIC ABSCESS amoebic dysentery AMOEBIC HEPATITIS amoebic infection AMOEBIC TYPHLITIS APPENDICECTOMY appendicostomy appendix aspiration attack autopsy bacilli bowel wall bulges cæcal cæcum cannula catgut catheter cause cholecystitis chronic dysentery COLITIS colon complications of dysentery condition congested diagnosis diaphragm diarrhoea disease drainage DYSENTERIC APPENDICITIS dysenteric arthritis dysenteric symptoms effusion emetine enlarged Entamoeba histolytica enterostomy evacuated examination fæces fatal fever fluid gauze HÆMORRHAGE history of dysentery hospital iliac region inches inflammation inserted intestine knee large numbers lesions leucocytes leucocytosis liver liver-abscess localised lung malaria mucous membrane needle occurred onset open cæcostomy operation PAROTITIS patient perforation Perinephric abscess peritoneal cavity peritoneum pleural pleural effusion pus-sac rectum result rheumatism right iliac fossa rupture Shiga simulate Sir Leonard Rogers stools stricture subacute suppuration surgeon SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS suture swelling temperature tenderness tissue toxæmia toxins treatment tropical typhoid ulceration usually VALVULAR CÆCOSTOMY vomiting whilst
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Page 102 - ... outlet of the tube, and into this the pus drains. A weight ought to be attached to the lower end of the tube, to prevent slipping or displacement. The operation is completed by stitching the tube to the skin where it issues from the chest, and covering the wound around it with wet antiseptic gauze. The subsequent treatment consists in keeping up the drainage until the fluid that issues, as seen through the glass tube, is no longer purulent or flocculent, but merely bile-stained. If at any time...
Page 41 - I know of any such case in our museum (Calcutta), which dates back over eighty years and contains some five thousand specimens, including numerous dysentery ones. This is certainly rather strange in view of the extent of damage to the bowel, but may perhaps be...
Page 102 - ... glass tube, is no longer purulent or flocculent, but merely bile-stained. If at any time pain in the shoulder or side is complained of, raise the bucket off the floor until it is nearly on a level with the bed; this lessens the severity of the siphonage, which probably caused the " dragging" pain. As pus disappears stop drainage and shorten the tube, reducing its size as the discharge gradually ceases.
Page 28 - Appendicostomy. — (1) The peritoneal cavity is opened by a small incision in the right iliac region. A muscle-splitting incision or one at the outer margin of the right rectus; with retraction of the muscle inward, may be employed.
Page viii - Baghdad with a diagnosis of cancer of the rectum. The passing of blood and mucus, with pain and tenesmus, would certainly have led to that tentative diagnosis in...
Page 100 - The repeated use of the aspirator to abstract the discharge accumulating in the abscess cavity allows of the thick contents being removed LIVER-ABSCESS.
Page 110 - In the latter there was pain in the muscular parts of the body — especially at the joints — like the pain of rheumatism.
Page 30 - Jacques rubber catheter is taken, and an extra hole is cut near the usual opening. The caecum is opened by a fine scalpel in the middle of the region taken up by the purse-string suture.
Page 18 - The surgeon will do well to weigh carefully the history of an attack of chronic dysentery before deciding upon an abdominal operation.