PENETRATING WOUND OF ABDOMEN; RECOVERY.

Case of Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen

Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen — Laparotomy

On the 4th June last, at 11 a.m., Mrs. X, a healthy Native lady, aged 24, and the mother of three or four children, was accidentally shot by her brother, a lad of 10,with a pocket revolver. The boy was playing with the revolver, believing it, as his sister did, to be unloaded, when suddenly there was a loud explosion, and the lady was struck by the bullet in the abdomen from a distance of two y...

A Case of Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen with Protrusion of the Intestine: Recovery

were of a dusky red colour and very dirty. Treatment.?The protruded intestine was thoroughly cleansed with H. P. lotion 1: 2,000, and as there was a good deal of constriction of the internal opening and difficulty experienced in returning the gut, the internal wound was carefully enlarged and the bowel replaced. The edges of the internal wound were then neatly brought into apposition and secure...

Case of Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen, with Protrusion of Omentum; Recovery

In this case, an old woman, aged GO years, was also gored by a cow, 5 days before she was brought to the Serainporo Charitable Hospital. Oil the 29fh April, 1871, she had a lacerated wound, 5 inches long and 2 inches wide, commencing at the crest of the left ilium, and going inwards and a little downwards : through this wound protruded a piece of thickened omentum, 5 inches long and 3 indies wi...

A Case of Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen and Thorax