COLOTOMY IN CHRONIC DYSENTERY.

Chronic Bacillary Dysentery

THE investigation of chronic diarrhlea forms an important part of the examination of patients invalided from overseas commands, particularly from the tropics. This involves adequate laboratory examination for intestinal protozoa, flagellates, and dysentery organisms. During the course of the laboratory investigations on seven hundred of such patients with a history of chronic diarrhoea, dysente...

Nitrate of Silver Enema in Chronic Dysentery

Complete Absence of Rectum. Colotomy

S-, a male child, four clays' old, was brought from a village to the Colvin Hospital, Allahabad, at about 6 o'clock on the evening of the 31st March, 1884. The hospital dhai came to me and reported that a baby had arrived in whom the natural passage of defecation was absent. I immediately went over to the hospital and saw it. The face was pinched ; the baby could cry only faintly, the breathing...

Laparoscopic Colotomy Repair Following Colonoscopic Polypectomy

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The unfortunate complication of a colotomy resulting from a colonoscopic polypectomy can be disastrous. Using the versatility of laparoscopic surgery, we aim to provide a treatment algorithm for these colonoscopic perforations. METHODS We report a case of cecal perforation, in a 70 year old female, following colonoscopic polypectomy that was treated successfully with...

Dysentery in Asylums