Anatomical description of the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia / Jules Cloquet ; Translated from the French, with lithographic plates form the original etchings, and a few additional explanatory notes. By Andrew Melville McWhinnie.

  • Jules Germain Cloquet
Date:
1835
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Credit: Anatomical description of the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia / Jules Cloquet ; Translated from the French, with lithographic plates form the original etchings, and a few additional explanatory notes. By Andrew Melville McWhinnie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Superiorly, we may in most cases separate these two coverings from each other. The inferior border of the internal oblique, is, in many sub- jects, so confounded with the transversalis, that we cannot be certain that the cremaster does not receive fibres from the latter muscle. TRANSVERSALIS ABDOMINIS. Beneath the internal oblique is the Transversalis ; the lower part of which is attached externally to the inner border of the crista and anterior superior spine of the ilium, and also to the external part of Poupart’s ligament. Its lower fibres are very thin, take a transverse direction, and terminate in an apo- neurosis, which, passing inwards, is united to that of the internal oblique, which is placed in front of it. This aponeu- rosis is also extended in front of the rectus muscle,' to be attached to the linea alba, and to the upper part of the pubes, behind the internal column of the external ring, and the pyramidalis muscle. The spermatic cord slides underneath the lower border of the transversalis muscle, on a level with the superior opening of the inguinal canal. “ I have not succeeded,” says Scarpa, “ in determining accurately, whether or not the lower border of the transversalis muscle contributes in any way to the formation of the principal origin of the cremaster.” I can assert, that in the majority of dissections which I have made, I have been unable to discover that such is the case. In a great number of subjects I have succeeded, though often with much difficulty, in separating the internal oblique from the transversalis, and I have almost always obtained the same result; in some cases, however, these muscles are found to be ‘ The aponeurosis of the transversalis, it is well known, passes behind the rectus muscle at its upper part ; inferiorly it passes in front of it.
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