A Successful Case of Abdominal Section for Intussusception; with Remarks on This and other Methods of Treatment

Abstract

THE case of intussusception which I am about to describe came under my care at the London Hospital in 1871.The patient was a somewhat delicate female child aged two years.She had previously been seen by my colleague Mr. Waren Tay, who had diagnosed her disease, and by whom she was transferred to my care in order that she might be admitted as an in-patient.From her anus there protruded a portion of bowel about two inches long, deeply congested and much swollen.By the side of this the finger could be passed, its full length, into the rectum without reaching the point at which the intus- susception began.On carefully examining the extremity of the protruded part, I noticed that it did not present merely a rounded opening as usual in such cases.I was able easily to identify the pouch and valve of the ceecum, with the