Seventeen cases of chronic (relapsing) appendicitis, treated by operation / by Hunter McGuire.

  • McGuire, Hunter Holmes, 1835-1900.
Date:
[1895]
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Credit: Seventeen cases of chronic (relapsing) appendicitis, treated by operation / by Hunter McGuire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEVENTEEN CASES OF Chronic (Relapsing) Appendicitis, TREATED BY OPERATION. By HUNTEE McGUIEE, M. D., LL. D., Eichmond, Ya. Ex-President and Honorary Fellow of Medical Society of Virginia; Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University College of Medicine, etc. It will be seen that ten of the cases reported were females, and seven males. Sixteen were private cases, and one operated on in the amphitheatre of the University College of Medicine; fifteen cases were operated on in St. Luke’s Home (my private hospital); and one was operated on in a private house; this last was the fatal case, and the only fatal case of operation for chronic appendicitis that I have had.* The series of cases embraced operations performed in the inter- val between the attacks, when all, or nearly all, of the inflamma- tory symptoms had disappeared—operations done during the quiescent stage, as was originally suggested some years ago by Mr. Frederick Treves. In the series there is not included any case of acute or other form of appendicitis. You may have seen from the report of my cases that I am not always in a great hurry to operate, but that I am inclined to wait for the more acute symptoms to wear off, and operate, if at all, * I have operated on three other case3 of chronic appendicitis, hut the records of these cases are too imperfect to justify reporting them. These three cases recovered.