...fat-necrosis is frequent. Symptoms. — The common symptoms of acute pancreatitis are sudden, severe, often intense, epigastric pain, without obvious cause,...to be excluded by the absence of pain after eating, hemorrhages from the digestive canal, and cachexia. Acute perforation of the transverse colon is rare,...

...vomiting, sensitiveness, and tympanitic swelling of the epigastrium. There is often extreme prostration, frequent collapse, low fever, and a feeble pulse....to be excluded by the absence of pain after eating, hemorrhage from the digestive canal, and cachexia. Acute perforation of the transverse colon is rare,...

...diagnosis lies, practically, between an irritant poison, perforation of the digestive or biliary tracts, and acute, intestinal obstruction. An irritant poison...to be excluded by the absence of pain after eating, hemorrhages from the digestive canal, and caehexia, Acute perforation of the transverse colon is rare,...

...to an ineffective laparotomy. The differential diagnosis, often of course extremely difficult, lies between an irritant poison, perforation of the digestive...or biliary tract and acute intestinal obstruction. Treatment of course can be only palliative, unless we have a suppurative peritonitis, when conies the...

...collapse, low fever, and a feeble pulse. Obstinate constipation for several days is the rule, but diarrhcea sometimes occurs. If the case does not end fatally...to be excluded by the absence of pain after eating, hemorrhages from the digestive canal, and cachexia. Acute perforation of the transverse colon is rare,...

...more likely to be mistaken for irritant iwisoning or acute intestinal obstruction. The former may be excluded by the history of the case and by the examination of the stomach contents, and the latter by determining that the large intestine is patulous and by the absence...

...or Kuhn's method of duodenal intubation. ' Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1902, vol. xiii. p. 117. The differential diagnosis lies practically between...irritant poison, perforation of the digestive or biliary tracts, and acute intestinal obstruction. Iii cases of acute pancreatitis thus far reported no new...

...fat-necrosis is frequent. Symptoms. — The common symptoms of acute pancreatitis are sudden, severe, often intense, epigastric pain, without obvious cause,...to be excluded by the absence of pain after eating, hemorrhages from the digestive canal, and cachexia. Acute perforation of the transverse colon is rare,...

...was less commonly seen in the suppurative forms. The differential diagnosis, according to Fitz, lies "between an irritant poison, perforation of the digestive...or biliary tract, and acute intestinal obstruction. " Various theories have been put forward to explain the fat -necrosis which, as was first shown by...