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Show Accounts of Special Cases (i) Prolapse of the Rectum. Liu Ching Yu, 35, soldier in the Eleventh Army, came to the hospital August 26. For ten days he had suffered from dysentery, with many tens of movements daily, much tenesmus, and extreme abdominal pain. The sixth day of the disease over a foot of intestine had protruded and become black and gangrenous. Our surgeon amputated the dead intestine. After twenty-nine days in the hospital, he left cured. All of his expenses, for food, care, and the operation, being met by the hospital. (2) Laceration of the Left Wrist. Cheng Wen Hsiang, 56, of Ch'ing Ho, came to the hospital July 23. The night before he had encountered bandits, and had received a bayonet wound of the left wrist, leaving only a fifth of the normal, amount of skin connecting his hand and arm. He had wrist drop and paralysis of the hand, because the wrist joint was disarticulated 12 |
