British medical journal . occur gangrene is seen to be mostadvanced in the Peyers patches. If the loop be onlypartially filled with content, the changes are slower indeveloping, but are practically the same. 4. When the loop is tilled with an emulsion of bacteriagrown aerobically from content no early changesare seen, aud if the animal be killed forty-eight hourslater the loop presents an almost normal appearance andshows no signs of inflammation or gangrene. After observing a long series of such experiments one isprofoundly impressed with the rapid morbid changeswhich ensue when faeca
British medical journal . occur gangrene is seen to be mostadvanced in the Peyers patches. If the loop be onlypartially filled with content, the changes are slower indeveloping, but are practically the same. 4. When the loop is tilled with an emulsion of bacteriagrown aerobically from content no early changesare seen, aud if the animal be killed forty-eight hourslater the loop presents an almost normal appearance andshows no signs of inflammation or gangrene. After observing a long series of such experiments one isprofoundly impressed with the rapid morbid changeswhich ensue when faecal matter is locked up in an isolatedportion of the intestinal tract. That complete gangreneof such a segment may occur within sixteen hours with-out there being any interfei-ence with the blood supplyof the part is a striking fact, which throws consider-able light on those cases in which a completely gan-grenous appendix is found without there having been any Dec. 5, 1914] ACUTE APPENDICULAR OBSTRUCTION (D. P. D. WILKIE)..
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