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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A quantity of fat, or a collection of hyda-
tids, on the inner side of the groin, may re-
serable a herniary tumour in some degree.
Of the latter form of disease, an excellent
specimen is preserved in my father's museum,
in which a sac, the size of an egg, which con-
tained within it a quantity of hydatids, was
removed from the upper and inner portion
of the thigh, which might readily be mistaken
for a hernia, as the hydatids contain a watery
ssuid, have thin and elastic coats, which com-
municate to the sense of touch nearly the same
kind of sensations as a protruded portion of
interline, and are contained within a sac very
limilar to a hernial sac
Another case, some what si mi la r, is descri-
bed, in Desault's Ghirurgical Journal, by Mr
Manoury, in which a large hydatid lay over
the place where the bowels protrude in cases
os inguinal hernia : It had been mistaken by
a surgeon sor a hernia *.
Lumbar
* Vid. 252, torn, i, The history of the symptoms os this
case, and the mode of diftinguishing this complaint from hernia,
is