Monro, Alexander: Observations On Crural Hernia: To Which Is Prefixed, A General Account Of The Other Varieties Of Hernia: Illustrated By Engravings (Edinburgh [u.a.], 1803)

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the operation should be performed, and when
it may prove a cure.
Dr Baillie very justly observes, that the pulse
is by no means an infallible index of the state
of the protruded intestine. The pulfe is
sometimes, in such a case, not increased in
frequency beyond the standard os health, and
yet the inflammation of the bowel has been
discovered afterwards, by the operation, to be
very great. This is an important practical
observation, because it mows that the degree
of insiammation is not to be judged of from
the pulse,and teaches, that the operation mould
not be delayed, after the proper efforts for re-
ducing the rupture have failed, because the
pulse may happen to be little, or not at all,
accelerated."
Nor can we judge with certainty; from the
state of the other symptoms, whether the ope-
ration will be the means of cure, as these are
very various, in point of severity, in different
conslitutions.
In most cases, mortisication of the bowels
comes