Atropine Sulphate in a Case of Strangulated Hernia
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strangulated hernia. History.?Jabar Sahib, a watchman attached to the tramway workshop, aged about 40, used to get intestinal colic now and then due to constipation of a chronic nature; on these occasions he used to get himself cured for the time being. On the 8th January he got a similar attack and as usual he took an ounce of castor oil with some warm coffee early in the morning next day (9th January). He got only three motions, but not one of them was quite satisfactory, and he began to feel some sort of uneasiness in the right inguinal region where he noticed a slight swelling in addition. By next morning the condition grew worse, the pain in the inguinal region was increasing and the swelling that he noticed on the previ-
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Atropine Sulphate in Strangulated Hernia
In medical practice atropine sulphate is relied upon to relieve the acute pain caused by spasmodic contractions of involuntary muscle, such as occur in renal and intestinal colic. The acute pain of strangulated hernia is also due?in the majority of cases?to spasm of involuntary muscle of-the strangulated coils of intestine. If the spasm is relieved, reduction of the hernia may be much easier. W...
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