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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    and the peritoneum, the omentum presents itself to view, proceeding from the great curva¬ ture of the stomach, and hanging down like a flap over the intestines, The stomach will be found lying in the left hypochondriac and upper part of the epigastric regions, but when dis¬ tended it protrudes into the umbilical region. The alimentary tube is a continuous canal from the stomach to the fundament. In men it is six or seven times the length of the subject. This canal is divided into small and large bowels, and these are sub-divided : the small bowels are called the duodenum, the jejunam, and the ilium; the large bowels are the ccecum, the colon, and the rectum. The great transverse arch of the colon will be seen projecting through the omentum ; it mounts up from the right side, crosses the belly under the edge of the liver and under the great curvature of the stomach, and descending again upon the left side to the left groin, where it makes a turn over the brim of the pelvis and enters that cavity, when it takes the name of rectum. The colon is the largest of all the intestines ; at the beginning of this gut there is a valve which prevents the excre¬ ment which has once fallen into it from return- c