Book Description

Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, 1884: Volumes 13 and 14 Spencer Wells has endeavored to show in experiments upon ani mals that a neglect to approximate the cut edge of the peritoneum was detrimental to the success of the operations. In all abdominal operations, however, the intra-peritoneal method of treating the pedicle has not been the most successful one, especially in the opera tions of myomotomy and the Porro operation. In this, however, the fault does not lie with the closure of the peritoneum, but in the peculiar condition which prevents the return of the pedicle to the abdominal cavity. In all cases, where it is possible so to do, the peritoneum should be united by a continuous cat-gut suture, and then the abdominal walls united by their own sutures. This is particularly insisted upon by Spencer Wells for another reason - he says that by so doing the presence of an abdominal hern'ia at the point of incision is prevented later on. Operation - The operation is to be performed as follows: The room should be of a temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit everything needed for the operation should be in the room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.