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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Farts through which thefe Vifeera protrude, are fometimes the Navel, when it is called an Exomphalos, or Hernia Umbihcalis; fometimes the Rings of the Abdominal Mufcles, when it is called a Hernia Inguinalis, if the Tumour be only in the Groin ; a Hernia Scro- talis, if it reach to the Scrotum ; and in both Cafes more commonly a Bubonocele. When there is only Intejhne, it is alio called an En- terocele; when Omentum only, Epiplocele; and when both, Entero Epiplocele: Sometimes they pafs under the Ligamentum PouparUi with the Femoral Artery and Vein into the Thigh =, in which Circumftance it is called a Hernia Femoralis: fometimes through various Inter¬ faces of the Abdominal Mufcles, when it is called a Hernia Vent rails •, and, laftly, fome¬ times through the great Foramen of the Ifchium. The Intejlines and Omentum are the Pifcera, which generally form the Hernia: But there are a few Examples where the Stomach and the Bladder make the whole, or a part of the Hernia. > - T h e Intejlines and Omentum are contained within the Peritonaeum, fo that whenever they protrude from the Abdomen, they muft either carry the Peritonceum along with them, or burfl: through it: The Ancients admitted or both ° Cafes,
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