Reflections on Petit's operation, and on purgatives after herniotomy / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Reflections on Petit's operation, and on purgatives after herniotomy / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subject ; the opinions of distinguished surgeons being conflicting, and facts to reconcile them not at hand. Seeing moreover that, so late as 1850, i\Ir. Hancock deemed the question of sufflcient importance to devote to it the greater part of an exceedingly able and elaborate monograph,in which lie has enunciated propositions at variance with re- ceived opinions, and, in my opinion (I emit it witli much deference), not in accordance with establislied. facts, I am induced to methodise a few of the notes which I made in the pursuit of this investigation. Originally performed in a case of strangulated inguinal hernia in the early part of the last century, by Jean Louis Petit,* the extra-peritoneal method of herniotomy did not gain much repute until 1788, when Monro strenuously defended it,f after having put it to the test of even wider experience than had been done by its originator. Sir Astlcy Cooper, Boyer, and Lawrence, recommended it in particular cases, but no further decided impulse was given to its generalisation until 1833, when Mr. Aston Key devoted to its advocacy a monograph:}: * Traite dcs Operations de Chirurgie, par Rene Jacques Croissant Garengeot, Paris, 1720, tom. i, p. 211. Traite des Maladies Chirurgicales, etc., ouvrage posthume de M. J. L. Petit, Paris, 1774, tom. ii, p. 370, et seq. f A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body, etc., by Alexander Monro, M.D., Edinburgh, 1788, p. 43, et seq. J A Memoir on the Advantages and Practicability of Dividing the Stricture in Strangulated Hernia on the Outside of the Sac, with cases and drawings, by C. Aston Key, London, 1833.