Copy 1, Volume 2

A treatise on the diseases of children. With directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children. With directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their birth, and then a tumour appears in one, or both groins, forming another affection re¬ sembling the hernia, and is noticed on that account. As the application of a steel-truss, or indeed any other bandage, might here be attended with bad, if not fatal consequences, it is of importance to avoid the mistake. This complaint being generally owing to a preternatural stricture of the rings of the abdominal muscles, or to a want of due action in the cremaster or gubernaculum; I have nothing to recommend, unless it be in a ne¬ gative way, to forbid any rude handling of the part, in order to force the testicles into the scrotum. If any thing of this kind should be judged necessary, from a disposition of the parts to give way, the descent should be only very cautiously assisted, and that not fre¬ quently. In the course of a few weeks, or months however the obstacle of whatever kind usually gives way; though sometimes indeed the part remains confined through life, and its unnatural position is certainly attended with some inconveniences, and a greater chance of injury to the testes; of which I have seen more than one instance in adults. In some an hernia congenita has likewise taken place, and been attended with