A Case of Strangulated Hernia Relieved by Atropine
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A male patient, R. V. M., aged 57 years, was admitted with a strangulated hernia on the 11th January, 1934. His temperature was 97?F., pulse 100 p.m., weak and of low tension. He had vomiting, colicky pains and cold perspiration. The inguino-scrotal swelling, which had lasted for six hours, was spheroidal in shape, size about 6 inches by 5 inches, had no impulse on coughing and was tense, tympanitic and irreducible. An enema, and cold and evaporating lotions were tried before arrival at the dispensary without any good result. Atropine 1/50 grain was injected hypodermically and
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