Monro, Alexander: Observations On Crural Hernia: To Which Is Prefixed, A General Account Of The Other Varieties Of Hernia: Illustrated By Engravings (Edinburgh [u.a.], 1803)

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os the nature and various forms os
hernia.
By the word Hernia is generally understood,
in the language of surgery, an external tumour,
formed by a protruiion of the bowels through
one or other of the openings through the abdo-
minal muscles, where the umbilical, spermatic,
or crural * veilels pass out, or round ligament
of the female uterus.
The sac of the tumour is formed by the peri-
toneum, and, within it, are contained an aque-
ous sluid, the omentum, a portion of the alimen-
tary canal, or other viscera os the abdomen.
Difserent names have been applied to the
various species os hernia, descriptive os the age
os the subjecT: asflicted by the disease, or os the
situation os the tumour; hence the term her-
a iij nia
* The term crural is meant to include the femoral, fciatic, and ob-
turator blood-veffels, as all os these are fpent on the upper part of the
thigh.