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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XII
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McWhinnie, in The Lancet, records a case of dislodgment of an enlarged liver from tight lacing.
Terrilon mentions an instance in which a portion of the liver was removed by ligature after celiotomy.

The ligature was removed in seven days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.

A cicatrix was completed at the end of six weeks, and the patient, a woman of fifty-three, made an excellent recovery.

Bastianelli discusses those cases in which portions of the liver, having been constricted from the general body of the organ and remaining attached by a pedicle, give rise to movable tumors of the abdomen.

He records such a case in a woman of thirty-seven who had five children.


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