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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    Urs h^s infenfibly difappeared; and fur- geons have acquired diftinguifhed honor by the difcovery of various new fpecies of hernia, and of fafe methods of curing them radically. Thefe improvements are entitled to our warmeft approbation. It muft never- thelefs be acknowledged, that this branch of furgery has by no means attained the defirable degree of perfection. The prin- cipal defedl lies in the mode of operation, and pradlitioners are ftill embarrafTed to operate with fafety in cafes of the crural or femoral hernia, which prefents fome of the mofl: dangerous cafes. Some, after the herniary fack is opened, advife to cut the flillopian ligament acrofs and forwards; others to cut it outwards, or inwards. Mr. Arnaud, to avoid the danger of thofe methods, invented a blunt hook or curved levator, with which he made an affiftant raife the lieament fo as to dilate it, till there was room to return B 2 the