STRANGULATED HERNIA OF FIVE DAYS' DURATION IN A WOMAN AGED EIGHTY-FIVE; OPERATION; RECOVERY.

Rapid Recovery after Operation for Strangulated Hernia

Strangulated Hernia Operation, and Subsequent Operation for the Radical Cure

Nazir, Mahomedan, aged 35 years, was admitted on the 20th April -with symptoms of strangulation of an inguinal hernia of the right side. It was of seven years' duration, and had been always reducible. He had never worn a truss, and on one occasion he seems to have been in peril from a temporary incarceration of the hernia. On the 19th of April it protruded when ho was talking, and he was unable...

Modified Wood's Operation after Reduction of Strangulated Hernia

of tincture of opium, with 15 minims of chloroform in water, and putting him on a wooden bedstead, lifted the latter so that his body formed an angle of nearly 45\ with an imaginary line drawn from his head parallel to the ground, both his legs being uppermost, and tied down with a bedslieet to the bedstead, to prevent his slipping down, out of the bed, in the direction of his head, which was l...

Acute Postpartum Pulmonary Edema in a 32-Year-Old Woman Five Days after Cesarean Delivery

Acute dyspnea after pregnancy is a rare presentation, and a number of important conditions may accompany it. Pulmonary embolism, amniotic fluid embolism, pneumonia, aspiration and pulmonary edema are some of the potential causes that must be considered. The percentage of pregnancies that are complicated by acute pulmonary edema has been estimated 0.08%. The most common contributing factors incl...

A Strangulated Hernia