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Source: Progressive Medicine Source type: journal Document type: article Document title: “Surgery of the Abdomen, Exclusive of Hernia” Author(s): Gerster, John C. A. Date of publication: June 1915 Volume number: 2 Issue number: none Pagination: 57-186 (excerpt below includes only page 66) |
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| Gerster, John C. A. “Surgery of the Abdomen, Exclusive of Hernia.” Progressive Medicine June 1915 v2: pp. 57-186. |
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| William McKinley (surgery). |
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| Charles Greene Cumston; William McKinley. |
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About the author (p. v): John C. A. Gerster, M.D., Instructor in Surgery, New York Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School; Adjunct Surgeon to Mt. Sinai Hospital; Assistant Surgeon to Knickerbocker and City (Blackwell’s Island) Hospitals. |
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Surgery of the Abdomen, Exclusive of Hernia [excerpt]
The empty stomach is simply perforated by the
modern bullet, the wound of exit being slightly larger than the wound of entrance,
while a full stomach struck by a bullet is burst apart.
In searching for the wound of exit through an
incision in the anterior gastric wall, Cumston emphasizes the necessity of making
the wound large enough to afford a clear view. To show the disadvantages of
a small opening, he cites the case of the late President McKinley in which digital
examination through a small incision in the anterior wall of the stomach failed
to find the perforation in the posterior wall. It must not be forgotten that
the wound of exit may be in the posterior wall of the duodenum.