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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of nephralgia calculosa, or nephritis by pain
increased on motion : by the slow and gradual
increase of the tumour, and other symptoms;
by the fluctuation of the matter, felt on alter-
nate pressure being made on the loins, and
upper and inner part of the thigh ; by exa-
mining the tumour in the alternate state of the
erect and horizontal posture ; and by the ab-
sence of such symptoms as denote an obstruc-
tion in the bowels.
A crural hernia may be mistaken for an
inguinal hernia.
From what has been already advanced, it
is obvious, that the sex os the patient will af-
sist us in distinguishing one kind of hernia
from another; women being so much more
frequently afflicted with crural hernia than
men.
The late ProfelTor Hamilton, of Glassow *
seems to have thought, that one variety of
hernia is very often mistaken by surgeons for
another, and gives the subsequent catalogue
of
* Vid. Edinb. Phil. Trans. vol. 4th.