Dispensary case sheets

Shillong Dispensary.—Case of Ovariotomy

A small lightly-built woman rather pallid, but free from scorbutic taint. Both legs oedematous as far as knees. Skin of lower part of abdomen also much thickened by oelema. The girth of belly round umbilicus was 43 inches. Length from ensifonn cartilage to symphysis pubis 25 inches. (Since the operation these measurements have been reduced to (1) girth round umbilicus 23^ inches, (2) from ensif...

Begooserai Charitable Dispensary—Case of Omental Protrusion

Gauhati Dispensary.—Case of Opium Poisoning: Recovery

Grokool, Hindu, aged 23, swallowed 1 tola (90 grains) of opium mixed in oil at 2 o'clock on the night of the 16th September 1879. He was a personal servant of a native gentleman, and as he did not turn out to his ordinary duties in the morning, his house was searched, and he was found in a state of semi-insensibility. He was brought to the dispensary at 8 a. m., suffering from marked symptoms o...

Jehanabad Dispensary

was brought to me by the Police at 1 a.m., 12 hours after the accident. A knuckle of intestines had protrude d. 1 reduced the hernia, which seemed to be strangulated, with difficulty, and stitched it up, and prescribed for her decoction and tinct. of cinchona with rum, and the wound was dressed with carbolic oil (not antiseptically ) She progressed well for 7 days, no symptoms of peritonitis ev...

Gondah Dispensary Cases

August, showed no disposition to heal : on the 4th August, three bits of skin, taken from the man's forearm, were grafted ; on the 10th, seven days after, this large ulcer had completely healed. Unfortunately, the man knocked his ankle against something a day or two afterwards, and there was a breaking out again about the size of a rupee near the outer malleolus; this, with simple dressing, too...