A probationary surgical essay, on crural hernia : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their corporation, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary members / by William Wood.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A probationary surgical essay, on crural hernia : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their corporation, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary members / by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ly. In fome cafes of flrangulation of the omen^- tum the bowels remain open, while in others the irritation communicated to the inteftine is fo great as to induce conftipation *. The omentum, when flrangukted, generally becomes gangrenous, but? ‘ in fome cafes it fuppurates f. Seat of the Stricture. The fymptoms of flrangulation are all induced by compreflion of the protruded vifcera. In by far the greater number of cafes of Crural Hernia, this compreflion is' made by Gimbemat^s ligament. But in fome cafes it would feem to have been produced by the fafcia lata of the thigh, at the diflance of from one to two inches, or more, be- low Poupartk ligament. This fafcia is faid by Arnaud to be frequently the feat of flridure. His words are, “ Tout chirurgien doit f9avoir, qu’il “ arrive aflez ordinairement que certains paquets “ des fibres du fafcia lata, plus ou moins multi- ^ pliees, font capables de faire etranglement dans “ la Hernie Crurale, et men\e dans I’lnguinale. “J’ai- * Arnaud, Mem. de Chirurg. t. ii. p. 540. f Richter, p. 2is.