Abstract
Chicago, Feb. 12, 1895. To the Editor: —About seventy years ago a surgeon named Denans, in France, reported to the Royal Medical Society of Marseilles his experiments with an instrument acting on the principle of the intestinal button. The report was published by the Society in 1826. ( Recueil de la Societe Royale de Medicine de Marseille , 1 an., No. 1, 1826.) Chelius, of Heidelberg, quotes it in the sixth edition of his System of Surgery, translated by South in 1847, (vol. 111, p. 509) in the following words: In complete division of the intestine, Denans introduces into the upper and lower end of the gut a silver or zinc ring, thrusting it inward about two lines from each end; he then brings the two ends together over a third ring, of which the two springs retain the external rings. The included ends of the intestine mortify, and the rings thereby
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