Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / By B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1802
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    he was placed in an ered pofition: the deli- quium happened when he had loft a quart of blood. He was now immediately placed in a favorable pofture for redudion, and every rea- fonable attempt to return the contents of the tumor were tried ineffeduallv, and manual efforts were made, whilft different pofuions were employed without fuccefs. Mr. Alanfon recovered this man by the knife. CASE Y. [Communicated by Dr. Storer.] t ' . ' r.- ’ ■- v-.' > i - r • • * ■ ■ “ Sir, - >' - - I can have no doubt that your owrl pradice « muft have furnifhed you with many undeniable « proofs of the utility of the method lately reco'm- <c mended by you in treating incarcerated hernis. <* The cafes you have publilhed are conclude ; «c yet, I am perfuided, it%ill not be difagreeable (C to you to be poffeffcd of the following additional « teftimony in its favour!—Some weeks fmce I “ was defired to vi(it the wife of a butcher in this «« town, who had, for many years, been fubjed to u a hernia inguinalis of the right fide, which Ihe was in ufe to reduce herfdfj and was in general * fupported by a trufs of her own contrivance. I - S4 €( found