Abdominal Surgery at the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, during the Year 1891

Abdominal Surgery at the Eden Hospital, Calcutta

Abdominal Surgery at the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, during the Rears '92-93

Cask No, 28.? Uterine Fibroid. Removal of Lejt Ovary'.?I" 1886 Dr. Harvey had removed a small cyst from the right side of the pelvis: nature not noted in the report. There was no note either of the existence of a fibroid. Since Christmas 1891 there had been much pelvic pain on the lpft side. On admission in February. 1893 the uterus was found to be enlarged, reaching t>o the level of the anteri...

Eden Hospital, Calcutta

The following cases which occurred whilst I ?was Resident at the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, present points of interest: ? (1) Case of persistent Hymen impeding the passage oj the head during labour. Mrs. J., European, admitted, 15th May 1886, in labour, primipara. Age 28. 1st stage, 19 hours; 2nd stage, 2 hours, 15 minutes. When the second stage had lasted for nearly two hours, the matron, who wa...

Abdominal Splenosis: An Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction in a 7-Year-Old Child

Splenosis is a rare condition defined as a heterotopic auto-transplantation of splenic tissue, typically after blunt abdominal trauma. It can occur anywhere in the abdominal cavity, or even the chest. Splenosis found in clinical practice is relatively rare because most patients are asymptomatic. We report a rare case of abdominal splenosis in a 7-year-old boy, 3 years after an abdominal blunt t...

Abdominal Surgery at the Eden Hospital

17 cases ... 2 deaths. 4 ,, ... 1 My last series of cases was published in the Indian Medical Gazette during the year 1894; the present shows the work of the past three years, less a period of seven months, during which I was on furlough. The same system of classification has been adopted as in former reports, and similar tables have been prepared. The general results for the two and a half yea...