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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Women, from corpulency, frequent preg-
nancy, or difficult labour, are often affected
with umbilical hernia. They are alio, for a
reason which I shall endeavour to assign in the
subsequent part of this paper, more subjecl to
crural hernia than men.
Boys and men are more subjecl: to bubono-
cele than women, owing to the spermatic
chord being of a much larger size than the
round ligament of the womb ; and perhaps
also from the rings in boys being a little
enlarged by the tesies palling through them.
The young, active, and robust, are molt
frequently afflicted with ventral hernia.
OF THE DIAGNOSIS^
As, in the preceding part os this paper,
a general account has been already given of
the nature and varieties os herniae (with the
exception os diaphragmatic hernia), it is only
neceflary in this chapter to enumerate thofe
c ij symp-