Anatomy of the parts concerned in femoral rupture / by George W. Callender.

  • Callender, George William.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Anatomy of the parts concerned in femoral rupture / by George W. Callender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FEMOEAL EUPTUEE. ANATOMY OF THE PAETS CONCEKNED. PiEUEAL or femoral rupture, hernia,^ passes through ^ the wall of the abdomen beneath the tendon of the 1 Hernia, from epvoc, a branch, i. e. from the tumour protruding forwards; it has also been re- ferred to the old Latin adjective hernius (see also hsereo), ' quod veteri Sabinorum lingua durua significat' (Mauchart De Hernia incarcerata, p. 81). ' Hernia, vel etiam juxta Castellum, crepatura' (Freytag, De OscJieo-enterocele, p. 45, ed. 1721. Also Albucasis, Methodus Medendi, lib. iii. cap. XXXV. p. 292. Basilese, 1541). ' Crepatura, id est rima, locus cavus, aut iter cavum' (^Lexicon ad Scriptores medice et injimcB latimtatis, Migne). John Gad- desden, author of the Bosa An- glica (1492), quaintly explains (p. 166) the term Hernia ' quasi rumpens enia, viz. intestina.' Ambrose Pare calls all ruptures ' hargnes,' because the patients are commonly 'hargneux' (mo- rose). Further termed *de- scentes' by A. le Quin and others (ie Chirurg. Herniare, Paris, 1697), and named by German writers ' ein bruch, ein leibscha- den.' The word KriXt} (i:r]\e(o, .permulceo, or ^(aXaw, laxo) is used by Plippocrates when writ- ing of ruptures, of which, accord- ing to Le Clerc {Hist, de la Medicine, part i. lib. iii. cap. viii.), he names the following varieties: ' tumeurs de I'aine, du scrotum, ou des testicules, causees par la chute de I'omen- tum, ou de I'intestin.' Some of these hernias are described in works generally regarded as spurious; but as such works, if not Hippocratic, were written by his pupils, or by contem- porary disciples of the school of Cnidus, it is certain that the Greek surgeons were thus early