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INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE

1912; American Medical Association; Volume: LIX; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1912.04270070032012

2376-8118

J. Riddle Goffe,

Biliary and Gastrointestinal Fistulas

As the Roman gladiators in the days of old entered the arena to meet each other in deadly combat or to be torn to pieces by the fierce Numidian lions, it was their custom to greet their audience with the expression Morituri salutamus! "We who are about to die salute you!" Conscious of the wide divergence of opinion on this subject of intra-abdominal pressure and knowing the powers and skill of the many gladiators who enter this arena, to whom the Numidian lion is but a toy, I can only exclaim in the language of the ancients, "I who am about to die salute you." Despite this depression of the hour I am buoyed up by the thought that out of the contest there may perhaps come some slight illumination on the subject or at least some inspiration for further investigation. The universal application of abdominal section which has come