Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 43: January-April, 1862 Art. I. - Statistical Researches relative to the Seat, Symptoms, Patho logical Anatomy, Prognosis, Treatment, etc, of Intussusception in. Children. By J. Lewis smith, M. D., Curator to the Child's Hospi tal, New York. Intussusception, or the passage Of one portion of the intestine into another, has been known as an occasional accident from the earliest history of medicine. Hippocrates himself, though debarred from the study of morbid anatomy, appears to have had a pretty clear idea of this lesion, and his practical mind suggested a mode Of treatment which has not been im proved upon to this day. Intussusception is sometimes trifling, attended by no symptoms, and disappearing on slight traction or motion of the bowels; at other times the symptoms are grave from the first, and if the patient survive, it is only through the tedious process of sloughing and adhesive inflammation. The following cases, Of the severe form of intus susception, are all which I have been able to find in the American, British, and those continental periodicals to which I have access. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.