SPECIAL HOSPITALS
1913; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 2747 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.2.2747.520
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Resumohad a severe attack 12 molnths before when away from home.Operation, and complete recovery since.CASE xv.-A.A., boy, aged 31 years.Attended for two days by district nurse; treated for bilious attack.When I saw him, bilious vomiting, light stools, suibsequently slight jaundice; symptoms cleared up, and the child's appetite returnied and temperature was inormal till a fortniight after the commencement of the attack-then a message from his mother that he was worse, and a swelling was found to have developed in the left ingfuinal region.Operation: swellinlg found to be localized pus; signs of recent appendicitis; well since-6 months.CASE xvi.-Mrs.W.,aged50; B, and constipation and vomitinig; senit to hospital.After operation, was told it was malignant and inoperable.As the condition remained as before, admission to another hospital was procured, and the original diagnosis of appendicitis confirmed.Many adhesions found--one, very thick and strong, round the ascending colon.Well ever since operation-9 years.CASE xviI.-E.R., girl, aged 12; tuberculosis; B and constipa-tioIl; operation: appendix reported to have beeni chock full of threadworms.Well since-6 weeks.CASE xviII.-K.M., married woman, aged 36; A and constipa- tioIn; acute febrile symptoms subsided after operation, but it was evidently the first indication of a general infection by B. coli, which gave other manifestations subsequently.The patient made a slow recovery from the latter; 4 years since operation.CASE xix.-M.D., girl, aged 12; A; first seen twenty-four hours after commencement of attack; sent to hospital im- mediately, though symptoms had slightly abated; operation performed there twelve hours after arrival.Appendix commeencing to show sigins of gangrene; well ever since-3 months.(,ASE xx.-E.G., age(d 26; B, getting more severe, sent to hospital; while waiting for operation had more severe attack.
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