About 2 1/2 feet of the small
intestine, having a whitish color, appeared to be filled with
food and had much of the characteristic feeling of a sausage. The
rest of the small intestine had a dark-brown color, and the
stomach and colon, distended with gas, were leaden-colored. The
viscera had been exposed to the atmosphere for over an hour.
Having nothing but cold Mississippi water to wash them with,
Barnes preferred returning the intestines without any attempt at
removing blood and dirt further than wiping with a cambric
handkerchief and the stripping they would naturally be subjected
to in being returned through the opening. In ten minutes they
were returned; they were carefully examined inch by inch for any
wound, but none was found. Three silver sutures were passed
through the skin, and a firm compress applied. The patient went
to sleep shortly after his wound was dressed, and never had a
single subsequent bad symptom; he was discharged on May 24th, the
wound being entirely healed, with the exception of a cartilage of
a rib which had not reunited.
Rogers mentions the case of a carpenter of thirty-six who was
struck by a missile thrown by a circular saw, making a wound two
inches above the umbilicus and to the left.
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