. Interstate medical journal . with no bad results, andfrom this time on, recovery was uneventful. Here then was a symptom complex, ushered in by the gradual develop-ment of abdominal pain, followed by distension confined to the epigastricregion, anxious unrest, hiccoughing, Hippocratic facies, vomiting, in-creasing rapidity of pulse, and finally, by evidences of collapse. All thesesigns, associated with the fact that the peritoneal cavity had been opened previously furnished excellent grounds for a diagnosis of postoperativeperitonitis. The only symptoms that weighed in a measure against thed
. Interstate medical journal . with no bad results, andfrom this time on, recovery was uneventful. Here then was a symptom complex, ushered in by the gradual develop-ment of abdominal pain, followed by distension confined to the epigastricregion, anxious unrest, hiccoughing, Hippocratic facies, vomiting, in-creasing rapidity of pulse, and finally, by evidences of collapse. All thesesigns, associated with the fact that the peritoneal cavity had been opened previously furnished excellent grounds for a diagnosis of postoperativeperitonitis. The only symptoms that weighed in a measure against thediagnosis of peritonitis, was the moderately free passage of flatus, andthe absence of both abdominal tenderness and rigidity. The diagnosisof acute dilatation of the stomach was made on the distinct outline of thedilated stomach gainst the anterior abdominal wall, and the absolute dis-appearance of this outline immediately following the vomiting of a largequantity of dark colored fluid. The absence of peritoneal infection, and.
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