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.

  • Acret, G. S.
Date:
1835
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    semilunaris, formed by the tendons of the two oblique and transverse muscles uniting at the edge of the rectus before they separate to form the sheath for that muscle. The rectus, there¬ fore, lies between the linea alba and the linea semilunaris. The general form of the two recti and the external oblique muscles, as also the linea alba and the linea semilunaris, may be seen by referring to any muscular figure. The attachments, technically called the origin and insertion of the muscles of the abdomen, are as follows : External Oblique—this muscle is at¬ tached to the eight lower ribs, to the breast bone, to the hip, and to the pubis ; from the ribs to the hip, and partly over the belly, it is fleshy, the fibres running obliquely downwards and forwards about the middle of the side of the belly it termi¬ nates in a thin broad tendon, which passes over the whole front of the belly to be united to its fellow muscle at the linea alba; this tendinous expansion is called the tendon of the external ob¬ lique muscle; the lower part of the tendon, where it is stretched from the hip to the pubis, is some¬ what thickened, and is often described as a separ¬ ate ligament, by the name of pouparts ligament. Internal Oblique. This muscle arises by short