Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / By B. Wilmer.
- Wilmer, Bradford.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / By B. Wilmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![appendix. CASE XXIX. $ April 10, 1778, I was fent for to Rugby, in the county of Warwick, to confult with an eminent phyfician and a furgeon, in the cafe of an elderly gentleman who, as I was informed by letter, had a flrangulated rupture. I found him in a weak Hate in bed $ the whole fpermatic procefs was occupied by a tumor which preffed againft or palled under the tendon of the external mufcle. The tumor throughoui its whole extent was tenfe and painful wherever I preffed my fingers againfl: it j and had all the externa] appearance of an hernia. But had it been an hernia, and in an inflamed (late, it was natural to fuppofe that fymptoms of a ftrangulated inteftine, or difeafed omentum, mud have been produced. He had neither hiccough, vomiting, naufea, coftivenefs, or any lymptom indicating flrangulation. He had a natural ftool every day during his confinement : the parts were in conftant pain, and he was feverifh. I was acquainted, that many years before, he had a rupture, and wifhing to conceal it from his friends, had undertaken a jour¬ ney to London, where the tumor was reduced, and a trufs applied 5 after the application of which the parts remained in their natural date -9 that about a fortnight before, his trufs being worn out, he ordered another to be made under his own direc¬ tion, and icon after he had applied it, he felt pain 3 and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794869_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
