Acute Obstruction of the Small Intestine

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HOSPITALS devoted to the care of charity patients are not usually expected to be sources of low mortality rates. The reasons for this, which are many and varied, include the generally poor state of nutrition among these patients, their advanced physiological age as compared with the chronological age and, possibly most important of all, the educational deficiencies that bring them to medical care late in the course of their diseases. When these handicaps are compounded with an illness that in the best of hands carries a formidable mortality, depressing mortality figures are to be expected.Before what might be called . . .

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