Acute Obstruction Caused by Meckel's Diverticulum

History.?A foot constable, aged 29 years, attached to a police station about 20 miles from headquarters reported sick to the dispensary doctor on the morning of 14th October, 1939. He gave him an enema and fomentations on the abdomen as he complained of pain in the abdomen and constipation with no passage of flatus for the last 24 hours. The man passed some fecal matter but no flatus and pain was not relieved. He was kept in the local hospital for more than 36 hours and then at 4 a.m. on 15th October was transferred to the police hospital from where he was sent to the civil hospital as an emergency case, at 9 a.m. the same day. He complained of severe irregular pain in the lower half of the abdomen, no passage of flatus or stools (except the small one in hospital) for three days, and vomiting. He lay curled up in the bed, with thighs flexed and he had rapid thoracic type of breathing, pinched facies, coated, furred, dry tongue, temperature 99?F., and pulse 100 per minute. He vomited once on arrival but it was not fecal in character. Abdomen was tympanitic and no tumour was felt. There was no tenderness