Atropine in Strangulated Hernia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The following case may interest some of your readers. H. B., a Mohammedan male, aged about 60 years, Was brought to this hospital with a strangulated inguinal hernia of the left side at 7-30 p.m. on the 10th June, 1934. The duration of this condition was about five hours; the patient was in severe pain; his temperature was normal and pulse 68 per minute; he Was constipated. The scrotal swelling was irreducible, hard, tense and tender with no impulse on coughing; it was of elongated shape, measuring ten inches by six inches. The patient had been suffering from chronic bronchitis. Ice was applied to the swelling and atropine sulphate, l/50th of a grain, was injected subcutaneousfy; within forty minutes the hernia slipped in on slight manipulation with immediate relief to the patient.