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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    AN ACCOUNT O F FORMER METHODS OF OPERATING FOR THE CRVRAL HERNIA, And ok the . INCONVENIENCES WITH WHICH THEY WERE ATTENDED. OF all complaints the true hernia is doubtlefs the moft frequent. On careful calculation it has been found that one eighth part of the human fpecies is afHidted with it. (Am and in his preface p. lOO.) The majority of' infants become ruptured;* and many are born fo. Some of thofe that are * This, it muft; be remembered, was written in Spain, where the pernicious praftice of fwaddling and tight cloathing is not yet exploded.—T. B cured