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

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1802
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    CASE XXVII. [Communicated by Mr. Alanson,] cc In the month of July 1779, I was called to a patient in a neighbouring village. She was a *f healthy woman, about forty years old ; (he com- €c plained of a tumor, which was about the fize of << a hen’s egg, in her groin; fhe could not tell <c exactly how long fhe had been affiidted with it, cc but did not confider it as a complaint of any €f confequence. It became painful and tender to xc the touch, and fhe was feized with pain, vomit- ing, and coftivenefs. Application was made to <c a medical perfon, who treated the tumor as an <c abfcefs, and informed her it would come to tc matter : he afiiduoufly gave her medicines as u though fhe had the iliac paiTion. She went on under the fymptoms of a ftrangulated hernia <£ eleven days, her diforder not being underftood or properly treated. Br. Binns was now called : *c he immediately made her friends acquainted with <c the real flare of the bufinefs, and defired a fur- €( geon might be called. I was fent for, and fine “ fell jointly under our care. Her pulfe, tongue, i( and general afpeft te fern bled that of a patient in <c the laft flage of a putrid fever, and fhe appeared <c as if fhe had but a fhort time to live ; fhe (< faultered in her fpeech, and feemcd nearly u exhaufted. Her belly was exceedingly hard to 9 the