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Title: Medical and surgical reports
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago
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Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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obstruction be in the small intestine,does not hold out much hope of lessening the 100 per cent mortality.Spriggs recommends enterostomy with subsequent anastomosis.Clogg has suggested the attempt at dilatation of the undevelopedintestine with water pressure, at the time of operation. While there has so far been no successful case reported, it is suggest-ed, that in a favorable case in which only one obstruction is presentbelow which the intestine is undistended, that the best chance ofattaining success would be by doing a rapid enterostomy bringing boththe distended and undistended ends of the intestine into the wound.Then if the childs condition improved in a day or so an attempt mightbe made to dilate with saline solution under pressure the undevelopedor undistended intestine with the hope of subsequently performing anenterostomy if the dilatation were successful. Whether this can bedone or not remains to be proven. Stomach Distended SmallIntestine Connective Tissue!to Umbilicusv -
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Blind PouchistenclecT Small Intestine Appendix Congenital Intestinal Occlusion MULTIPLE ABSCESSES OF ONE KIDNEY IN A CHILD. John Douglas, M.D. Patient R. K. No. 83279—Age 7. Admitted to Surgical DivisionB. November 15, 1910. Family History—negative. Past History.Always well up to 3 months ago, since which time the child has beenailing. She complained of headache, general lassitude, occasionalslight fever and loss of appetite and weight. For the past month shehas had pain in the right side on climbing stairs or on unusual muscularexertion, and has been very cpuiet. She has complained at times ofpain on urination for several weeks, but has never passed any gravel,stones or blood. The urine was occasionally cloudy. Present Illness. Two days before admission during the night, shebegan to vomit and have severe abdominal pain. She vomited allnight and the following morning had a chill lasting 15 minutes followedby a high fever. The bowels moved twice that day and once the dayfollowing i

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