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Hernia

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  • Hernias: a femoral hernia, an inguinal hernia and an inguinal abdominal hernia. Etching by E. Mitchell, ca. 1809.
  • The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia / by Henry O. Marcy.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A bare-chested man displays a hernia, which is visible the left side of his thorax. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1866.
  • The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia / by Henry O. Marcy.
  • The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia / by Henry O. Marcy.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia / by Henry O. Marcy.
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Catalogue

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    Practica copiosa von dem richten Grundt dess Bruch Schnidts (Lindau, 1559-67) / Caspar Stromayr.

    Stromayr, Caspar. | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

    Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943. | Date: [1900]
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    Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841. | Date: 1822
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    Die Krankheiten der Harnblase / von Robert Ultzmann ; nach dessen Tode Herausgegeben von Moritz Schustler.

    Ultzmann, Robert, 1842-1889. | Date: 1890
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    An account of a particular kind of rupture, frequently attendant upon children, and sometimes met with in adults, viz. : that in which the intestine, or omentum, is found in the same cavity, and in contact with the testicle / by Percival Pott.

    Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788. | Date: 1771
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