COiNTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. * COLIC,' ITS DEFINITION - . -I 



II. SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE ABDOMEN - 6 



III. HOW TO EXAMINE THE PATIENT - - 21 



IV. ETIOLOGY : GENERAL PREDISPOSING CAUSES - 28 



V. etiology: general exciting causes - 35 



VI. gastric impaction (gorged stomach, grass 



staggers, or stomach staggers) - 47 



VII. gastric tympany (gastrectasis, or dilata- 



• tion of the stomach) - - -52 



viii. rupture of the stomach (gastrorrhexis) 73 

 IX. subacute obstruction of the double colon 

 (impaction of the intestines, impaction 

 of the colon, stoppage of the bowels) 80 



X. subacute OBSTRUCTION OF THE PELVIC 



FLEXURE OF THE DOUBLE COLON - -123 



XI. SUBACUTE OBSTRUCTION OF THE SINGLE COLON 1 37 

 XII. SUBACUTE OBSTRUCTION OF THE SMALL INTES- 

 TINES , - . . - 14^ 

 XIII. INTESTINAL IRRIGATION IN OBSTRUCTIONS OF 



THE COLON - - - - - 161 



XIV. THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INTESTINAL 



OBSTRUCTIONS - - - ' '' 7 3 



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