On account of numerous strictures it was found necessary to remove over two yards of the small intestine; the patient recovered without pain or trouble of any kind.

In his dissertation on "Ruptures" Arnaud remarks that he cut away more than seven feet of gangrenous bowel, his patient surviving.

Beehe reports recovery after the removal of 48 inches of intestine.

The case was one of strangulation of an umbilical hernia.
Sloughing of the Intestine Following Intussusception .-- Lobstein mentions a peasant woman of about thirty who was suddenly seized with an attack of intussusception of the bowel, and was apparently in a moribund condition when she had a copious stool, in which she evacuated three feet of bowel with the mesentery attached.

The woman recovered, but died five months later from a second attack of intussusception, the ileum rupturing and peritonitis ensuing.