Penetrating Wound of Abdominal Cavity with Protrusion; Recovery

Kiiagendra, a Bengalloe boy, aged 5 years, was admitted on the 25th August, 1871, with four transverse parallel wounds, from half to three quarters of an inch apart, and of from an inch to an inch and a half in length each, in the left ilio-lumbar region, caused by falling on a glass shade, which broke under him, and inflicted the wounds above mentioned. On admission, shortly after the accident, a portion of large intestine, about the size of an egg, with some omentum, was found protruding through the uppermost wound. A few small pieces of glass were found in the wound, but they had not injured the protruding bowel. The three lower wounds were comparatively superficial. The boy was placed under chloroform, and the protruded bowel cautiously reduced. The wounds were closed with wire sutures, and dressed antiseptically, i. e., with carbolic acid. In anticipation of peritonitis, and to keep the bowels in a state of