[Examples of emergency surgery. Ectopic pregnancy, biliary ileus, appendicitis].

Surgery was practised at home for a long time during the first half of the XXth century. The improvement of anaesthesia and of the structures of cares provoked the progressive disappearing of these practices after the WWII. Although modern techniques were currently used in the Hospitals of the Universities the conditions of practising remained the same in some countries at the beginning of the century. At the beginning of the 50s before the growing transports surgical emergencies could be taken in charge at home in some areas uneasy to reach.