Reflections on Petit's operation, and on purgatives after herniotomy / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Reflections on Petit's operation, and on purgatives after herniotomy / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cceding which I should strenuously advise the adop- tion of, when nothing contra-indicates it.” Tlie result which followed the trial of Petit’s operation in Mr. Liston’s hands, is precisely that which has attended it since it was first imagined. Opposed on the grounds of preconceived opinions, it has steadily gained in repute, in proportion as it has been put to the test of experience. Mr. Hancock’s opposition is far more decided than is that of the Edinburgh Professor. “ Opening the sac”, he says,* “ does not increase the danger of the operation ; but, on the contrary, is to be preferred as the safer mode of proceeding.” So forcibly and ably, and in many respects so plausi- bly, has Mr. Hancock defended his opinion, that it deserves most attentive consideration. If correct, it is calculated to do much good; otherwise, its adoption must be attended with practical mischief, of a magnitude proportionate to the immense im- portance of the affection, as a rule in tlie treatment of which it is propounded. The array of authorities—Hupuytren, Richter, Hey, Heister, Sir Astley Cooper, Law-rence, South —whom ]\Ir. Hancock citesf as opponents of Petit’s operation, is prma facie so formidable as to deprive it of all claim to su])port; but it becomes very On the Ojieration for Strangulated Hernia. By Henry Hancock. London : 1850.