A Case of Intussusception: Laparotomy
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E.H.,European, 29 years of age, occupation nil, was admitted into the General Hospital about midnight on the 20th April 1894, complaining of great pain in the abdomen, vomiting, and much prostration; and he stated that he had had no movement of the bowels for three days. Previous history.?The only points worth noting here are, that he had been subject to epileptic fits from childhood, and that he had had, during the last three years, two attacks
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