Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / by B. Wilmer, surgeon, in Coventry.
- Wilmer, Bradford
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / by B. Wilmer, surgeon, in Coventry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![CASE XXVII. [Communicated by Mr. Alanson.] Cf In the month of July 1779, I was called to a <c patient in a neighbouring village. She was a tc healthy woman, about forty years old ; (he com- 6f plained of a tumor, which was about the fize of “ a hen’s egg, in her groin j fhe could not tell «f exaftly how long fhe had been afflifted with it, tc but did not confider it as a complaint of any “ confequence. It became painful and tender to <c the touch, and fhe was feized with pain, vomit- <c ing, and coftivenefs. Application was made to tc a medical perfon, who treated the tumor as an <f abfcefs, and informed her it would come to <{ matter : he afliduoufly gave her medicines as <c though fhe had the iliac paffion. She went on “ under the fymptoms of a flrangulated hernia <* eleven days, her diforder mot being underftood or properly treated. Dr. Binns was now called : *( he immediately made her friends acquainted with tc the real ftate of the bufinefs, and defired a fur- <f geon might be called. I was fent for, and fhe “ fell jointly under our care. Her pulfe, tongue, “ and general afpe<fl refembled that of a patient in tc the laft ftage of a putrid fever, and fhe appeared “ as if fhe had but a fliort time to live ; flie tf faultered in her fpeech, and feemed nearly “ exhaufled. Her belly was exceedingly hard to 9 <c the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21438948_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
