In this case a cure was accomplished in three weeks.

The second case was that of a man in whom almost the entire stomach was removed, and the pyloric and cardiac ends were stitched together in the wound of the parietes.

The third case was that of a man of sixty-two with carcinoma of the pylorus.

After pylorectomy, the line of suture was confined with iodoform-gauze packing.

Unfortunately the patient suffered with bronchitis, and coughing caused the sutures to give way; the patient died of inanition on the twenty-third day.
Enterostomy, or the formation of a fecal fistula above the ileocecal valve, was performed for the first time by Nelaton in 1840, but the mortality since 1840 has been so great that in most cases it is deemed inadmissible.
Colostomy, an operation designed to make a fistulous opening in any portion of the rectum, was first practiced by Littre.