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REPORT OF A CASE

RICHARD F. NORTHROP, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;30(6):1040-1048.

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Although articles in the literature dealing with continuous drainage of the intestinal tract through suction applied to an inlying nasal catheter are accumulating rapidly, there are at present very few. Although the duodenal tube was a prominent part of the surgeon's armamentarium and a device known as the Connell suction apparatus had been assembled, these aids were not united in therapeutic use until Ward,¹ in 1925, employed them in the treatment of "general peritonitis, postoperative ileus, intestinal obstruction and acute gastric dilatation" to prevent "that dilatation and sogginess of the upper intestinal tract which is so commonly found in cases of this type that come to postmortem examination."

Following this rather brief suggestion there was silence until 1932, when Wangensteen,² in a treatise on acute intestinal obstruction, reported the successful treatment of three patients with obstruction by means of continuous suction applied through a nasal catheter. Interest in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the service of Dr. H. L. Northrop, Hahnemann Hospital.

Footnotes
This thesis was submitted to the faculty of Surgery of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science (M.Sc. [Med.]) for graduate work in Surgery.

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