Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-08-21
Death Resulting from a Disregard
or ENasteEafiDM TO RMptures.
Extracts from the uorks Of Sr .AsIey Cooper, the

| Extracts from the uorks of Sir .4suey Cooper, the
eminent Surgeon.
Case |. A man brought into St. 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 2. a middle aged man, who had been az
tlicted with Hernia for many years, was injured
ty 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 alternating, in any degree, his torture.
Case 3. Mr.. CLIFTON died from a neglect of his
rupture. When we reflect upon the talents and
foresight OF thai great historian, we are forced to
the conclusion that there must be something IN the
nature of the affection that supplies the senses
| against he actual dangers always attending it.
Case 4. A mar was brought into the hospital
with a stransulated hernia, was operated upon,
suffered intense pain, and shortly after died in
great agony.
Case ). 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, 1t could not
ue 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.
Fl proved fatal. The patient died on the follow
ing evening.
Case 6. A person was taken into St. Thomas
Hospital for a strangulated lnqulnal hernia; the
attempts made to reduce II were unsuccessful, and
the operation was performed on the day OF his adj
mission. All efforts to give him rellet failed, and
Oh the eleventh day he sunk in the arms OF death.
Case 7. A man twenty years Of aye was adj
mitlcd into St. Thomas Hospital, for a stIangu-
lated ~onlental hernia; upon perlormlngth opera
ton, the quantity OF omentum was SO large mat
there was no possibility of its being returned, and
for the purpose Of its removal, a llgature was APP
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 s. Mrs. Rice. who had straugnlated iemo-
raj hernia, and was operated upon, the Symphonic
of strangulation were relieved; but on the third
day of the operation, the patient was seized with
vomiting of 1eculent matter, which continued tor
several DAYS. when she sunk from exhaustion.
Case 0. Richard Bvgrave died from lncarce-
rated concenial hernia, of sixteen hours strangu-
lation.
Case 10. Aperson by the name of Ashley, aged
6fty wears. had a hernia which became strangu.
lated. and which resisted every attempt 10 reduce
il: an operation was performed in the most satls-
factory 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 o. a stiffness and soreness about the
neck. with a difficulty in swallowing, and the jaw
became soon completely locked. Opium and the
cold bath were tried with some slight temporary
abatement of the symptoms, but without any per-
manent advantage, and the man soon tell a 'lc'im
to the disease.
~ The best means to avert a similar late, by
those who are unfortunately afflicted, is to apply at