A Case of Volvulus Complicated by Peritonitis; Operation; Recovery

Abstract

was the temperature went higher, he grew rapidly worse, and died on the third day following operation, with a temperature ¡it the time of death of 107.8°. Every effort was made to obtain an autopsy, but permission was denied. The special point of interest in connection with this case lies in the fact that a man with destruction of very nearly tho whole of the middle lobe of his right brain was able to go out from a general hospital at his own request, and with the house officer thinking him in sufficiently good condition, within less than twenty-four hours of his being brought back to the same hospital unconscious and paralyzed and with two ounces of fetid pus in his brain. When it is recalled how the very slightest hemorrhage into the same area will produce symptoms ¡is marked, it, is remarkable that nature in this case bore so great destruction for so long a finie before she showed any positive signs of its presence. PURGATION WITH OPIUM. BY J. W. WAINWRIGHT, M.D., NEW YORK. A VERY interesting case of intestinal obstruction came under my observation some years since, which I have often thought to report because of the treatment adopted, and the satisfactory termination of ¡in illness which promised to demand operative procedure as the only means of affording relief. R. W., ago five years, male, very active, nervous, well nourished and with good family history, was found to be. suffering from obstruction, but without, distress.