The Radical Mastoid Operation

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...

Radical Cure of Hernia (Wood's Operation.)

A Hindoo, aged about 40, came to the Azamgarh hospital on the 16th of July last, suffering from a large oblique inguinal hernia on the right side. The disease had existed for five years, and had come on gradually ; but latterly it had been increasing rapidly in size. On admission the tumour was somewhat larger than two fists, tympanitic to the touch, and reducible with the greatest ease. On pas...

Radical Cure of Hernia (Wood's Operation)

Towards the end of March last a young man presented himself at the Shahpur Dispensary, stating his willingness to submit to an operation for the cure of a right scrotal hernia. He was 23 years of age, well made, in good condition, in excellent spirits, and suffering from no affection besides the hernia. The hernia was of six years' duration, and was not very large, being about eight inches in i...

The Mortality of Operation for the Radical Cure of Hernia

Unilateral mastoid hypertrophy.

A 34-year-old man lacerated his forehead and was brought to the emergency room. Skull films (fig s. 1 A and 1 B) showed small and large rad iolucent , air-containing ce lls extending from the upper posterior reg ion of the mastoid area on the left side, across th e temporal-occipital suture into th e squamous portion of the occipital bone, and into the posterior part of the parietal bone. The s...