A new method of operating for the femoral hernia / translated from the Spanish of Don Antonio de Gimbernat ; to which are added, with plates by the translator, queries respecting a safer method of performing inoculation, and the treatment of certain fevers.

  • Gimbernat, Antonio de, 1734-1816.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A new method of operating for the femoral hernia / translated from the Spanish of Don Antonio de Gimbernat ; to which are added, with plates by the translator, queries respecting a safer method of performing inoculation, and the treatment of certain fevers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    crural arch, of which Leblanc had no * knowledge. Leblanc was alfo miftaken in fuppo- fmg that the gradual dilatation was more eafily efFeded there, than in the inguinal ring, and in afferting in confequence, that the operation for the crural hernia was not more difficult, or dangerous, accord- ing to his method, than for the inguinal. Is it not evident from thi?, that Leblanc was unacquainted with the ftrud:ure of the crural arch, and with the part that forms the ftrangulation ? From what I have faid, it follows that all th^ methods hitherto propofed, are either unneceflary, as that of Leblanc, (in which there is alfo great danger if the dilator be introduced, as was intended, into the foramen of flrangulatlon) or elfe attended with great rifk, as the beft praflitioners confefs; fince, if the fallopian ligament be cut acrofs, the poflerior pillar of the inguinal ring