A Case of Surgical Emphysema Following Fracture of the 5th and 6th Ribs
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stage, I wanted to displace the ribs outwards and asked him to submit to surgical interference, w'hich he refused. Treatment.?Calcium, opium and a purgative by the mouth. I kept him without any pillow. I did not see the patient for five days and I was told that some evil spirit was working on him and this spirit had inflated his whole body and the man was unrecognisable, and many mantras were being chanted to drive out the evil spirit but with no effect. Preparations,
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