The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 413
their perito- neal surfaces into close contact, but without such force as to interfere with the circulation. The perforation takes place by a gradual thinning over the point of the instrument, so that the orifice is at first small, and is sur- rounded by a large extent of serous surfaces in close… … through one intestinal orifice, and the hook through the other, the hook or male part of the apparatus pushes a portion of the double intestinal wall through the ring or female portion, and slowly perforates the intestine by ulceration with- out gangrene. Two peritoneal and two mucous surfaces are…
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