TY  - JOUR
T1  - SOme radical changes in the after-treatment of celiotomy cases.
AU  - RIES E
Y1  - 1899/08/19
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.92450600020001g
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 454
EP  - 456
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 8
N2  - The purpose of the changes which I have worked out within the last four years has been to free the patients from many irksome and disagreeable features of the after-treatment as usually carried out, and at the same time to make their recovery more rapid and more complete, so that they are able to leave the hospital at a much earlier date than has been customary and in such a condition of strength that they can follow their wonted occupations within a few days after their discharge from the hospital.The first impulse for these changes has been given by the observation of patients on whom vaginal celiotomy had been performed. I found, just as other surgeons did who used this method, that after intra-abdominal work done by the vaginal route with subsequent complete closure of the peritoneum and vagina by sutures, the patients could
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.92450600020001g
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450600020001g
ER  -