Hunterian lectures on the morbid anatomy, pathology, and treatment of hernia / by Charles Barrett Lockwood.

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1889
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    THE MORBID ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT OF HERNIA. LECTURE I. Introductory. JN the following lectures I propose to give the result of an attempt which I have made to ascertain how far the perito- neum and suspensory apparatus of the abdominal viscera are concerned in the pathology of hernia. Afterwards some questions with regard to the morbid anatomy and pathology of hernial sacs will be discussed. The last branch of the subject has been exhaustively studied, as is witnessed by the works of Scarpa, Cooper, Cloquet, Lawrence, and of others too numerous to mention ; but the contrary, I shall endeavour to show, is the case as regards the relation which the peritoneum and suspensory apparatus of the viscera bear to the morbid anatomy and pathology of hernia. Our information about this is incomplete and in need of further elucidation. Mr. Kingdon * has given one of the best expositions of this branch of the pathology of hernia, and places the questions at issue very clearly, as is evidenced by the following quotation from his essay:— The prevailing view of the causes and nature of hernia —that of Scarpa and his followers—may, for convenience, be called the ' mechanical;' the other, of which Richter was the most famed exponent, may be called the «pathological.' The * On the Causes of Hernia, by John Kingdon, Medico-Chirurgical transactions, vol. xlvn., p. 295 et s.