Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-07-31
Death Resulting from IL Disregard
or EMatteMti m to Ruptures.

Extracts from the rorhs of Sir .4sIey Cooper, the
eminent Surgeon.
Case /. A man brought into St. Thomas Hos
pital, who had talien from a ladder. struck a piece
OF wood and bruised his rupture he complained
of violent pain. and died in tour hours.
Case 2. A middle aged man, who had been az
tllcted with Hernia tor many years, was injured
ty a violent push. Within an hour after he was
injured | saw hl1n-bls 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 8. Mr.. Gibbon died f.om a neglect of bis
rupture. When We reflect upon the talents and
foresight OF that great historian, we are forced TO
the conclusion that there must be something III the
nature of the atfiiction that Supplies the senses
against the actual dangers always attending 1t.
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. Constlpa-
ton took place on the oath of January, it could not
be removed. and he was brought to ST. BarthoIo-
news Hospital: strong cathartIcs having tailed
in procuring any relief. the operation was per
formed on the seventh day from the strangulatlon.
It proved fatal. 1 he patient died on the follow
ing evening. .
Case =. A person Was taken ltto OF. ioiHd>
Hospital for a stranguiated inqulnai hernia The
attempts made to reduce il Were unsuccesstul, and
the operation was performed on the day OF his adj"
mission. All efforts 10 give him rellet tailed, and
on the eleventh day he sunk IN the arms OF death.
Case 7. 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 llgalure 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 straugulated temo-
| raj hernia. and was operated upon, the symptoms
of stranga1ation were relieved; but on the third
| day of the operation. the patient was seized with
vomiting of feculent matter. which continued lor
several days, when she sunk from exhaustion.
Case 8. Richard Bygrave died from lncarce-
rated c%ongenlal hernia, OF sixteen hours stran9u-
lation.
Case1O. A person by the name OF Ashley. aged
fifty years. had a hernia which became stransu'
lated. and which resisted every attempt 10 reduce
il; an operation was performed IN the most salts
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. be
complained of a stiffness and soreness about the
neck, with a difficulty in swallowing. and the Jaw
became soon completely locked. Opium and the
cold bath We're tried with some slight temporary
abatement OF the symptoms, but without any per
manent advantage, aud the MAI soon Tell a victim
to the disease.
II The best means to avert a similar fate, by
those who are unfortunately afflicted, is to apply al