A Case of Severe Abdominal Injury
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The; publication on p. 269 of the issue of the Indian Medical Gazette for last June of Dr. Row's case of abdominal injury prompts me to record one of still more serious abdominal injury. The patient, J. M., a Hindu male, aged about 24, was brought to the Balasore Hospital about 8 a.m. on 28th October, 1924, with a history that he had been gored by a buffalo the previous evening. Some 5 feet of intestine had protruded through the rent in the abdominal wall and had been at once wrapped up in the filthiest of rags. In this condition he had been carried to hospital a distance of some 12 hours' transit in
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