Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-11-20
Death Resulting from a Disregard
or ERattentiOn to Ruptures.

Extracts from the uorks of Sir .4sthy Cooper, thu
eminent Surgeon.
Case /. A man brought into t.. Thomas Hos
pital, who had fallen from a ladder, struck a piece
of wood and bruised his rupture he complained
of violent pain. and died in four hours.
Case .. A middle aged man, who had been az
hicted with Hernia for many. years, was injured
by a violent push. Within an hour after he was
injured | saw him-his countenance was that of a
dying man, but nothing that we could devise had
the effect, during the three days that he survived,
of alleviating, in any degree, his torture. ,
Case 3. Mr.. Gibbon died from a neglect of his
rupture. When we reflect upon the talents and
foresight Of that great historian, we are forced to
the conclusion that there must be something in the
nature of the a~fiiiction that Supplies the senses
against the actual dangers always attending it.
Case 4. a man was brought into the hospital
with a strangulated hernia, was operated upon,
suffered intense pain, and shortly after died in
great agony.
Case 5. A man about fifty years of age had
been subject for many years to a rupture, which
could be returned without difficulty. Constipa-
ton took place on the oath of January, it could not
be removed, and he was brought to St. Bartholo-
news Hospital: strong cathartics having failed
in procuring any relief, the operation was per-
formed on the seventh day from the strangulation.
1t proved fatal. The patient died on the follow
ing evening.
Case 6. A person was taken into St. Thomas
Hospital for a strangulsted inquinal hernia the
attempts made to reduce it were unsuccessful, and
the operation was performed on the day of his ad-
mission. All efforts to give him relief failed, and
on the eleventh day he sunk in the arms OF death.
Case Z. A man twenty years of age was adj
mitted into St. Thomas Hospital, for a strangu-
lated omental hernia; upon performing the opera
ton, the quantity of omentum was SO large that
there was no possibility Of its being returned, and
for the purpose Of its removal, a igature was ap-
Piled around it. He experienced no relief from
the operation, and died on the seventh day from
that on which it had been performed.
Case 8. Mrs. Rice, who had straugulated femo-
raj hernia, and was operated upon, the symptoms
of strangulation were relieved; but on the third
day of the operation, the patient was seized with
vomiting of ~feculent matter, which continued for
several days, when she sunk from exhaustion.
Case 8. Richard Bygrave died from incarce-
rated congenial hernia, Of sixteen hours strangu-
lation. .
Case 10. Aperson by the name Of Ashley, aged
fifty years, had a hernia which became strangu-
lated, and which resisted every attempt to reduce
it an operation was performed in the most salts
manner By the eighth day after the ope-
ration the wound was healed excepting at one
small spot; but, upon the morning OF that day, he
complained of a stiffness and soreness about the
neck, with difficulty in swallowing, and the jaw
became soon completely locked. Opium and the
cold bath were tried with some slight temporary
of the symptoms, but without any per-
manent advantage, and the man soon fell a victim
TO the disease.
10 The best means to avert a similar fate, by
those who are unfortunately afflicted, is to apply at
DIR. OFFICE,
No. 10 81. Charles ST., New Orleans,
and procure his
NEWPdTENT TRUSS RUPTURE Wash.
Yon may have used an ordinary Truss for years
meeting with an accident or serious iniu-
ny from an imperfect retention or undue pressure
upon the bowels; but then again you may be
taken during the next day or week with all the
horrible and fatal symptoms of strangulation.
10 Remember the above cases, and while you
have an opportunity, do as they ought to have
done-RESORT TO THE BEST MEANS OF
eEteRITY. jv3l