A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key.

  • Charles Aston Key
Date:
1833
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Credit: A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac / By C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES. 4] : leased as soon as the external ring was divided, he carried the bistoury under the edge of the transversalis, and divided a por- tion of it: this gave immediate relief to the strangulated bowel; and slight pressure upon the tumour returned the larger portion of its contents. He had not an untoward symptom, and in a week could bear the pressure of a laced truss to support the tumour *, — a portion of intestine being ir- reducible from old adhesions. In 1807, a large umbilical hernia came under his notice, that could not be reduced by the ordinary means, and which he suc- ceeded in returning by carrying the bis- toury under the edge of the tendinous umbilical aperture, and dividing it. “I made a very small incision opposite to the neck of the tumour, exposed the fascia which covered it, passed my bistoury be- tween the fascia and the sac, and divided the former to the edge of the umbilical ring; then putting my finger to the edge of the linea alba, I passed my knife through