Practical observations in surgery : illustrated by cases / by William Hey.

  • Hey, William, 1736-1819.
Date:
1810
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    opportunities as might offer of discovering the cause of stricture in femoral hernia. On such occasions, I pursued my exami- nation in the following manner. Having laid bare that part of the fascia lata of the thigh, which covers the great femoral vessels, where they descend below Poupart’s ligament; I opened the abdomen, and removed the peri- toneum, together with that fatty membrane yvhich lies at the entrance of the sheath of those vessels. I then dissected out the lym- phatic glands and adipose membrane, which remained in the sheath on the inner side of the femoral vein. Having cleaned these parts, I introduced my finger into the sheath; and, carrying it downwards on the inner side of the vein, till it appeared below what is now called the lunated or falciform process of the fascia lata, I took notice where the stricture upon my finger w'as the greatest. In doing this, 1 found the anterior edge of the thin projection of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle, to coincide or be continued with the falciform edge of the fascia lata. This part I called tbe femoral ligament. My ideas, however, of the anatomy of these parts was not clear, when I first adopted that term; and, consequently, my description of them ] l was