Strangulated Umbilical Hernia — Operation

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...

Case of Strangulated Umbilical Hernia Reduced by Inversion

On the 3rd October 1875, a Hindoo male child, named Ootum Chund, aged 2 years, was brought to the Arrah Dispensary by his father "for strangulated umbilical hernia. A knuckle of intestine, of the size of a large walnut, was seen to have protruded through the umbilical ring, the sharp edge of which had tightly bound down the neck of the sack. The patient had not been moved since the appearance o...

Strangulated Hernia

History.?Just two weeks before the patient had a huge swelling in the inguinal canal stretching up to the scrotum and all the signs of intestinal obstruction, but no medical help was available. On the sixth day the scrotum sloughed and fecal matter began to flow out through the wound. He was brought to the hospital on the fifteenth day after the onset in an extremely emaciated condition. On exa...

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...