The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach, and intestines / By Alexander Monro.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach, and intestines / By Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    In cases such as the above, the cause of the stran- gulation being internal, it cannot be removed by di- viding the Aperture through which the displaced portion of Intestine has passed, or by opening the neck of the Hernial Sac, and continues, even when the Bowels have been returned into the cavity of the Abdomen. It merits mention, that the Ring formed by the Omentum, which embraces the Intestine, is, strictly speaking, rather a membrane attached to the Omen- tum, than a portion of it; it is more firm, and has no fat appended to it, and bears a greater resemblance to the Peritoneum than to the fatty Omentum. Of Hernia through the Mesentery. In this kind of Hernia, the displaced Intestines pass through an unnatural Aperture in the Mesen- tery, and are strangulated*. Mr A. Cooper has published an engraving, in which the Intestines are represented as having pas- sed between the layers of the Peritoneum, forming the Mesentery. Both patients died in consequence of inflammation in the Bowels. * Vid. Plate I. fig. 1. in my Observations on Crural Hernia, which was taken from a case of that kind of Heruiaj which oc- curred to Dr RUTHERFOKD.