Rupture and its radical cure : with a full description of the parts involved : also, of falling of the womb, varicocele, enlarged veins of the legs, piles, curved spine, spermatorrhea or nocturnal emissions from self-abuse, and its cure by pressure / by S.N. Marsh.

  • Marsh, S. N. (Seymour N.)
Date:
1853
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    suspensory bandage, fastened to a strap, encircling the body- above the hip. [See the article on Varicocele.] We give two plates, illustrative of complete rupture. The first is the oblique groin or inguinal rupture ; the second, the femoral or thigh rupture. The plates need no explana- tion ; they only show the external appearance. All the anatomy we have explained, is, of course, under the skin. All the reader lias to do to comprehend the umbilical Ol- navel rupture, is merely to transfer mentally the swelling or protrusion, greater or lesser in size, to the navel, and to imagine it rather more circular than either of the others. A ventral or belly rupture, from a sudden rent, may be suspected when a swelling suddenly originates anywhere in the belly after a violent exertion ; it will, most probably, be round. The event, however, is rare. Femoral or thigh rupture, as well as that of the groin, is very often suspected from the sudden enlargement by con- gestion of their blood, of one of those little roundish and Ovoid bodies, depicted iii the righl thigh of plate lirs) : I' are called glands, and frequently enlarge from irritable wounds of the thigh and foot, and sometimes from jumping. In such cases they exist, almost always in one of the glands that are situated lowest, and running across the thigh. for the lower tier of glands are always connected with the absorbents of the leg and thigh. When the enlargement Originates from venereal disease, it is generally situated in one of the highest glands, or the upper tier in the groin, because these upper glands are connected with the absorb- ents of the penis, where the poisoned sore or chancre is usu- ally sitinted. (See the plate.] The swelling in the case of a scratch or sore on the leg, or in venereal disease, may always lie suspected to originate therefrom ; but when from jumping, it is much more difficult to determine, as rupture is also often produced by that exercise. If a sudden impulse on coughing is communicated to the linger placed over the en- largement, it is probably a rupture.