"REMARKABLE MISADVENTURE WITH CHLOROFORM."

A Crabbing Misadventure

DESCRIPTION A 62-year-old diabetic gentleman presented febrile, 38.9 • F, with an infected, necrotic left leg. He had previously received 2 weeks of intravenous (IV) antibiotics for cellulitis. His leg was neurovascularly intact with a history significant only for a previous laceration to his leg, prior to a crabbing excursion.

Chloroform

It was perhaps fitting that Lieut.-Colonel Edward Lawrie, should signalise the year of his retirement from the post of R,esidenc\r Surgeon at Hyderabad by the publication of a volume on Chloroform, a subject with which he has been identified for many years past, and in defence of his views on which, and those of his master Syme, he has fought non sine gloria for many }7ears. The introduction to...

Chloroform

Medical misadventure: barium extravasation in colorectal cancer.

Dear Editor, Double contrast barium enema (DCBE) is a safe and accurate diagnostic procedure for colorectal cancer. It is often the next diagnostic test after incomplete colonoscopy,1 with an additional diagnostic yield of 3.2% for neoplastic lesions larger than 1 cm in the non-visualised portion of the colon.2 However, severe complications of colorectal perforation can occur rarely in 0.02% to...

A Medical Misadventure—Death from Sternal Puncture