Hernia : its etiology, symptoms and treatment / by W. McAdam Eccles.

  • Eccles, W. McAdam (William McAdam)
Date:
1900
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Credit: Hernia : its etiology, symptoms and treatment / by W. McAdam Eccles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Preparation of patient for herni- otomy, 69 for radical operation, 125 Pressure upon irreducible contents, 117 Processus vaginalis, 5, 99, 148 Properitoneal hernia, 151 Prostration in strangulation, 43 Provident clubs, hernia in relation to, 224 Psoas abscess, 160 Purgatives after herniotomy, 76 ' Radical cure,' inadvisability of the term, 122 Radical operation, after-treatment of, 139 in femoral hernia, 168 in inguinal hernia, 121 in relation to life assurance, 219 in umbilical hernia, 185 instruments for, 127, 128 preparation for, 125 principles of, 25, 123 use of truss after, 140, 144, 173 Rarer forms of inguinal hernia, 145 Rat-tail truss, 111 Recti abdominis muscles, divarica- tion of, 190 Reducible hernia, 18 prognosis of, 20 signs of, 19 treatment of, 21 operative, 25 palliative, 21 ' Reduction en masse,' 65, 66 Reduction of hernia, 19, 32, 64 Resection of intestine, 77 Resonant note over hernia, 19 Richter's hernia, 8, 42, 47 Ring, deep abdominal, 79 femoral, 153 superficial abdominal, 83 Rubber truss, 100, 103 Rupture, i, 147, 221 Sac, 4 adhesions in, 29 bilocular, 6 contents of, 7 • .' cysts in, 10 fenestrated, 6 ' fluid in, 9, 45, 64 formation of, 4 hour-glass, 7 Sac, hydrocele of, 9, 94, 95, 206 omental, 8 preformed, 5, 221 rupture of, 67 tubercle of, 9 varieties of, 6 Salmon and Ody inguinal truss, 23 umbilical truss, 184 Saphenous opening, 155 Sciatic hernia, 199 Scrotal hernia, 86, 91, 92 swellings, diagnosis of, 91, 93 truss. III Sepsis a cause of failure after radical operation, 121 Septic fluid in hernial sac, 56, 63, 65,71 Septum crurale, 154 Sex in relation to hernia, 13, 88, 157, 180 Sickness funds, hernia in relation to, 224 Silk twist for ligatures, 131 for sutures, 137 Skein of wool truss, 100 Skin incisions in herniotomy, 70 in radical operations, 128, 169, 186 Spermatic cord, 53, 85, 129, 136 Spring of truss, 22, 105 Stokers, prevalence of hernia in, 16 Stomach, washing out of, 70 Strangulated hernia, 36 causes of, 37 definition of, 36 diagnosis of, 35 pathological changes in, 54 signs of, 39 symptoms of, 39 treatment of, 62 Strychnine, use of, in hernia, 75, 140 Sudden production of hernia, 5, 88 Suture material, 137 Swelling as a sign of hernia, 19, 30 Taxis, 21 aids to, 68 dangers of, 65 in irreducible hernia, 32 in reducible hernia, 21 in strangulated hernia, 64 when inadmissible, 65 Tendon, conjoined, 82, 144, 146 Tenseness of sac, a sign of strangu- lation, 44