A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / by G.S. Acret.

  • Acret, G. S.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / by G.S. Acret. 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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    any of the above pass into the scrotum, they are called Oscheocele or Scrotal Rupture. Those which pass from the navel are called Umbilical or Exomphalos. Those in the bend of the thigh Femoral or Crural. If a rupture is composed of intestine only, it is named Enterocele; if of omen- tum only Epiplocele ; if of both, Intestine and Omentum Entero-epiplocele. Hernise, which take place at any part of the abdomen except the usual openings are called Ventral. The above terms are those in general use, but they are inadequate to convey every peculiarity or variety of the complaint; for instance, in Oscheocele, it is necessary we should know, in order to construct a remedy, through which opening (upper or lower) the hernia first made its escape from the abdomen. To communicate such information we require an addition to the word scrotal as direct scrotal and oblique scrotal. It is very common with the profession to speak and write of scrotal rupture by the term Ingui- nal Hernia, and although such application of the term is not decidedly incorrect, at least as far as the origin of the complaint is concerned, yet it is very likely to mislead the mechanic; as, when that term is used, he takes it for gran-