Notes on the radical cure of hernia / by W. Mitchell Banks.
- William Mitchell Banks
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Notes on the radical cure of hernia / by W. Mitchell Banks. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[Reprinted from the Medical Times, July oth, 188J] NOTES ON THE RADICAL CURE OF HERNIA. By W. MITCHELL BANKS. F.K.C.S., Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and Professor of Anatomy, University College, Liverpool. If in writing these notes I may appear to be somewhat dogmatic, I must offer by way of apology two reasons:—first, that where it is necessary to be brief, one can hardly be otherwise than dogmatic; and secondly, that I am speaking not from a theoretical point of view, nor from the knowledge gained from a few cases, but from a fairly extended experience. I have now performed the operation for radical cure on twenty-five cases of inguinal, seven cases of femoral, two cases of umbilical, and three cases of ventral hernia; as well as on thirteen cases of strangulated inguinal, eleven cases of strangulated femoral, and two cases of strangulated umbilical hernia. In all, sixty-three cases of every kind, ranging from the simplest possible variety, to some that may almost be termed gigantic. As regards the cases of strangulated hernia, the application of the radical cure being merely an accessory, it must of course be admitted that we do not derive from them any information as regards the safety of the operation, but, on the other hand, we obtain the same information as to its subsequent utility that we gain from cases primarily operated upon for radical cure. The term “ radioed cure” misleading.—The term “ radical cure,” implying as it does a thorough and perpetual cure, has, I suspect, been rather deterring to the progress of the operation than otherwise. People have been led by it to expect too much, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22450403_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
