This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...is washed out will depend upon the malady from which the patient suffers, but a common direction is for the operation to be employed once a day, or once every other day, and to be continued till the returning fluid is clear. Many patients will not adopt the treatment, as they consider it revolting, but others look upon ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...is washed out will depend upon the malady from which the patient suffers, but a common direction is for the operation to be employed once a day, or once every other day, and to be continued till the returning fluid is clear. Many patients will not adopt the treatment, as they consider it revolting, but others look upon it as a great blessing. Leube regards lavage as giving us, after examination of the returning fluid, some idea of the extent to which digestion has proceeded. If performed with care there are no dangers connected with it. Sometimes one meets with the disagreeable complication that the food is vomited up the side of the tube, but this need not prevent the completion of the process. A case is often quoted in which it is implied that washing out the stomach gave rise to tetanus, but reference to the original (Dujardin-Beaumetz et W. Oettinger, Note sur un Cas de Dilatation de FEstomac combinee de Tetanie Generalisee, L'Union Medicale, 1884) will show that probably this was quite an accidental combination. Conditions for which Lavage is Employed. Gastroectasis, or Dilatation of the Stomach.--This condition may, if it is severe, be recognized by mere inspection. There is a depression in the abdominal wall just under the sternum, but a large swelling, the shape of the stomach, occupies the middle and lower thirds of the abdomen, and is especially prominent towards the left anterior superior spine. If the distended organ cannot be seen, it can often be felt. It can be marked out by percussion, the exact note depending upon the degree of tympanitic distension and the amount of fluid; on shaking there may be splashing heard, and if the wall is at all hypertrophied, as in pyloric obstruction, peristalsis may be visible. The tympanitic note may extend h...
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