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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    whole cavity of the abdomen, and not only in¬ cludes all the parts contained in that cavity, but also each part in particular. This membrane has great spring or elacticity, and though thin admits of considerable extension without being torn, as in dropsy and pregnancy. Its internal surface is smooth and polished and is constantly moistened by a fluid exhaled by the minute arteries of the part which renders it smooth and soft, by which the motions of the viscera are performed with perfect facility, and prevented from adhering to each other or to the sides of the containing cavity. The external surface is rough and cellular, and adheres to various parts of the parieties, but to some more firmly than to others, its connection, at the lower part of the belly, is by a soft elastic cellular substance, which yields when this membrane is long sub¬ jected to any distending force ; as in the inside of the belly, the peritoneum incloses the bowels, so does it continue the same office in hernia, for every case of hernia (with one or two excep¬ tions), however large, has a continuation or elon¬ gation of this membrane surrounding and en¬ veloping them, and is then called the hernial sac. On removing the parieties of the abdomen