Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / by A.C. Baudelocque ... to which was awarded the prize by the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux. Translated from the French by G. S. Bedford.

  • Baudelocque, A. C. (Auguste César), 1795-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / by A.C. Baudelocque ... to which was awarded the prize by the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux. Translated from the French by G. S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * of this finger served to cnlarge the opening above and below. All the fluid was then evacuated, and the wound was dressed with tents of lint, to which a thread was attached, in order to pre- vent them from falling into the abdomen. The whole was covered with a plaster of diachylum, and supported by a T bandage. After a few days, the appearance of the naked intestines proved that the pus was situated in the cavity of the abdomen; eight days afterwards, the patient was convalescent, nisi quod mea Ipsius culpa, says Alix, idem malum denuo incurreret, et hoc meum erratum ideo referam, ut quilibet chirur- gus sibi caveat ne tale quid peccet. In fine, new pains soon declared themselves in the abdomen— a fluctuation began to be felt. Alix made a se- cond incision, and was greatly surprised to per- ceive a tent of lint discharged with the pus. He recollected that on one of the preceding days, being fatigued and hurried, he had dressed the wound with tents which bad been prepared be- fore his visit, and had not taken the precaution of attaching them by a thread. The patient soon recovered. (Observata Chirurgica, Faciculus Primus, p. 15.) This case has appeared very curious to me, both on account of the manner in which the ope- ration was performed, and the consecutive acci-