A commentary on the treatment of ruptures, particularly in a state of strangulation / by Edward Geoghegan.

  • Geoghegan, E. (Edward)
Date:
1810
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Credit: A commentary on the treatment of ruptures, particularly in a state of strangulation / by Edward Geoghegan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    $ 26 entire tumor to the action of the force. Ihe pressure should be exerted according to the course in which the parts have been protruded : thus the contents of a bubo- nocele pass obliquely downwards and in- wards; those of a femoral rupture down- wards and then forwards; j^ct we should not confine ourselves entiely to such a kind of pressure as the course of the hernia would suggest, but in failure of those at- tempts make other trials, in diiferent di- rections. ^ The following manoeuvre will sometimes succeed in bubonocele or scro- tal hernia, after the more ordinary methods liave failed, particularly in cases where the strangulation seems to have been caused by an accumulation of foecal matter. Let the surgeon embrace the neck of the swell- ing close to the tendon, with the finger and thumb of one hand, and carry them downwards, with a moderate pressure, so