Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas].

  • John Douglas
Date:
1735
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    22/48 page 20
    ** Tho* he has e^prefled it with tl^e lame obfCiinty as ^ other authors do.*' He is fo far, in my opinion,., from being fo, oblcure, as the authors before him, that he has given a fuller and clearer defeription of this difeafe in three lines, than the Dr. has done in twice three pages: nay, they can hardly be al¬ tered for the better. His words are. But we find by experience, that the procefs of the Perf- “ tonasum, may be broke or dilated in fioch a nwnner, that “ the inteftines will not be forced down into the Scrotum-s “ but between the mufcles and skin upon the Thigh. But the Dr. to make nonfenle of this excellent defcrrptionj, fays, Where, by the words Pi oceflum Peritonei, if he “ means the productions which arife horn the Vaginal Coat, the Gut cannot get into the fltuation he dercribes.’*^ What the Dr. means by the prodaidions which arife from the Vaginal Coat (I profefs I don’t underftand) but it’s evi¬ dent, that Barbette does not mean the Kaiural Procefc, which contain the fpermatick veffels, but the Preternatural Procefs the Peritoneum always makes in Hernia’s of the Na¬ vel, fides. of the Belly, or when they fall down upon the Thigh : and that thefe words the Dr. carps at, and would make a handle of, to deftroy the whole, are more proper to exprefs what the author defigif d, than any he could have put in their room : whence it is evident, that the Hernia Fc- moraliswas firft clearly deferibed by Barbette : and that Dr. Freind cither did not, or would not underftand him. Then, after all this wrangling, he gives only one inftance of this cafe (tho’ you fee Mr, Garengeot has given feverai, both of the Cafe and Cure) viz. “ The late Mr. Serjeant ** Barnard was concerned in a cafe, where the Gut reach- ed under the skin down to the middle of the Thigh. P^ay did Mr. Serjeant Barnard call this cale a Bubo<,ocel E ? as the Dr. would have him, or did he call if a Fenoral Hernia ?
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3