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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leaping ; daring the actions of vomiting, cough-
ing, or laughing; or during the {training, in the
exclusion of indurated faeces, or of the foetus in
cases of difficult parturition.
Herniae, when produced in this manner, are
the immediate consequence of the exertion, and
attended with a considerable degree of pain.
To the 3d head may be referred all thole in-
stances of hernia which we meet with in infants;
and in females, naturally of a relaxed habit of
body, whose constitutions have been enfeebled
or broken down by having had many children;
or, by age ; by long relidence in a warm or
moist climate ; by a sedentary life, or improper
diet; by bad health or the abuse of medi-
cines %
Dr Camper is of opinion that the relaxation os
the mesentery concurs with the relaxation of the
abdominal
* I attended a tall young man, of a weak habit of body, who,
on account of a venereal eruption, was obliged to confine himself
to his room sor some time, and to take a considerable quantity of
mercury ; in consequence of taking violent exercise upon getting
abroad, he was seized with a hernia in each groin on the same day.