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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 286 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=16mm, Gew.=422gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 286 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=16mm, Gew.=422gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It may be asked, how far the cures effected by Mr. Wood deserve to be called " radical" and " permanent" ? Have they stood the test of time and the wear and tear of life ? The best answer that we can give to this question is supplied by the first case in the appendix. The patient, a printer, aged twenty-five, was operated on in April, 1858, for a direct inguinal hernia: " After seven months the use of the truss was entirely discarded. His occupation has necessitated the frequent lifting and removal of heavy ' forms' of type, which often weigh as much as a hundred-weight. On the last occasion, when he was seen, " (a few months ago), the groin operated on could not have .been distinguished from the other, except by the presence of the small scars. No impulse whatever, or any bulging, was observable." (p. 2C4.) Again, as we have before mentioned, among the 60 cases there has only been one death, and that from pytemia, three weeks after operation, and when the patient was convalescent. This seems to show fchat the proceeding is not attended with any special or peculiar dangers. Again, we hear little or nothing of peritonitis, which one might have expected to have been a fruitful source of anxiety. Ou two or three occasions some slight symptoms arose, but they were easily met and speedily disappeared. This confirms the opinion which is now gaining ground, that we may deal with the healthy peritoneum with more impunity than was formerly thought possible. Again, it is remarkable how little, on the whole, the patients seem to suffer; indeed, several of the children, on whom the operation was performed with "rectangular pins" could hardly be said to suffer at all. In a few places the diction of Mr. Wood's book might be improved; but we are not disposed to find fault with i...<

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