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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Mr Thomson observed, that he had found
such a distribution of the obturator artery to
take place in six out of ten preparations he
had examined ; and therefore conside red* this
circumstance as forming an insuperable ob-
jection to the mode of operating in crural
hernia, proposed by Mr Gimbernat.
In fig. i st of plate 3d, the epigastric and
obturator arteries are seen coming off from
the external iliac artery at the same place, but
not by a common trunk.
I have seen the obturator artery sent off from
the external iliac artery about an inch and a
half above the epigastric artery.
I have seen another variety of lusus natu-
rae, with respecl to the origin of the obtura-
tor and epigastric arteries : In this variety,
the epigastric, obturator, and internal circum-
flex of the upper part of the thigh were deri-
ved from the femoral artery about an inch
below the crural arch*
I have (rated all the varieties that have fall-
en under my observation with respecl to the
E ij origin