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

  • Callender, George William.
Date:
1863
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    external oblique muscle at the inner side of tlie femoral vein, and forms, when complete, a tmnour upon the front of the thigh ^ about three quarters of an inch to the outer (b.C. 430) acquainted witli dif- ferent forms of hernia. The word pijyjjLa, rupture, is also em- ployed by Hippocrates, and its exact meaning has been much questioned. By most commenta- tors it is thought to apply to a ruptiu-e or straining of fibres, occasioned by external violence (Littre, tom. v. p. 379) ; but in some passages it evidently relates to hernia (see, for example, Adam's Translation^ vol. i. p. 200). 2 Femoral hernia. This name, first employed by Morgagni (epist. xxxiv. c. 15), was brought into general use by Chaussier. The words eprepoK{]\rj, intestinal her- nia ; eTrnrXoKrjXr], omental hernia; (3ov(3(i)voKrj\r], hernia descending no lower than the groin, were employed to indicate the varieties of rupture with which the an- cients were familiar. Heister {System of Surgery^ Eng. Trans. vol. ii. p. 54, 1753) has been at pains to state that Garengeot is in error when he affirms {Traite des Operations, tom. i. p. 241, 1721) that crural hernia was known to the Greek writers; and Breschet, arguing in support of Garengeot, quotes a long pas- sage from Dr. Freind's essay, which he oddly enough supposes to have been written by Paulus ^gineta (Consid. sur la Hernie femorale, p. 41, 1819). Paulus (ed. Eene Brian, s. Ixvi.), in common with other ancient sur- geons, states that, 'the disease called bubonocele (/3ov/3wv, the groin) precedes the enterocele, beginning in distension. For at first the peritoneum being stretched, the relaxed intestine is for a long time arrested in the groin, and forms a bubonocele.' The inguinal rupture is here so clearly set forth, that it is im- possible to suppose a reference is made to any other variety of hernia. Nor does Paulus, in any of his writings, show a knowledge of the crural rupture. With the exception of a remark by Celsus that hernia in woman ' fit prse- cipue circa ilia' (lib. vii. cap. xvii.), this variety is nowhere mentioned by early writers. Cases of iliac passion were, how- ever, recorded; and to these and to the bubonoceles may fairly be referred the otherwise unrecog- nised femoral ruptures, e.g. Case IX. in the third book of the Epidemics (Hippocrates, op. cit. vol. i. p. 396). Paulus names hernia as one of the causes of ileus (book iii. sect. xliv. Adam's Trans.) ; and the same fact is recorded by Aritasus, and subse- quently by Hildanus (Centur. 6.