A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor.

  • Pryor, W.
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1876
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Credit: A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor. 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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    action of the respiratory muscles, and disappears on pressure, and in the recumbent position of the body. It gradually finds its way through the tendon of the ex. abdominal muscle into the groin, and afterward into the scrotum. When a Hernia occurs suddenly there is a sensation of something giving way at the part, and with pain. (Lawrence.) Scarpa says that Martin, Benevoli, Bendal and Morgagin consider a relaxation and elongation of the mesentery as the principal cause of Hernia in general, and of Inguinal Hernia in particular. In a healthy abdomen there are two opposite forces which reciprocally balance each other. One the pressure of the viscera against the abdominal parieties. The other the reac- tion of these same parieties upon the viscera which they con- tain. If these two forces were in perfect equilibrium in all individuals, and under all circumstances in life, we could not be in the least subject to Hernia. But there are certain points of the abdominal parieties which naturally present much less resistance than others, and which react with much less power against the pressure made from within outwards by the abdominal viscera. Such is particularly the part which ex- tends from the pubis to the anterior superior spinous process of the Ilium. Hernia is more frequent on the right than the left side of the body. SYMPTOMS OF REDUCIBLE HEENIA. An indolent tumor at some point of the abdomen, most frequently descending out of the abdominal ring, or from just below Poupart's Ligament, or else out of the navel. Swell- ing often sudden — changes its size — pressure makes it smaller — increases after a meal; also in standing up.