On hernial and other tumours of the groin and its neighbourhood : with practical remarks on the radical cure of ruptures / by Carsten Holthouse.

  • Carsten Holthouse
Date:
1870
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Credit: On hernial and other tumours of the groin and its neighbourhood : with practical remarks on the radical cure of ruptures / by Carsten Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. This small work has its origin in two clinical lectures, delivered to the students of the Westminster Hospital in the year 1863. The object of the lectures was, first, to direct attention to the difficulties which occasionally beset tlie diagnosis of hernial tumours; and, secondly, to protest against the too prevalent practice of hernio- tomy in cases which, though temporarily irreducible, are unaccompanied by symptoms of strangulation. The present treatise is an expansion of those lectures, with many additional cases, illustrative and in support of the principles therein inculcated. The class of readers to whom these pages are addressed, being the advanced student and the young practitioner, and its main object diagnosis, as subsidiary to treatment, I have thought this would be more perfectly accomplished by a simple relation of cases, with the comments which they naturally give risp to, than by any set treatise on the subject. Most of the cases here narrated have come under my own observation, and are copied, almost verbatim, from my note books. I have not hesitated, however, when necessary for the illustration of my text, to borrow from that valuable collection of facts pubHshed by the Patho- logical Society; as well as from the classical works of Pott, Cooper, and Lawrence. I wish it also to be dis- b
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