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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traded, a very small part of the intestine only
is commonly displaced, which is thereby in
greater danger of being strangulated, than
when the omentum also is contained within
the herniary sac.
I mall conclude this paper, by making a few
observations, which may be regarded as co-
ralleries or inductions from the preceding
facts.
As the neck of a crural hernia is generally
much narrower than that of a bubonocele,
there is much greater rilk of inssammation
affecling the bowels contained within the
herniary tumour in the former, than in the
latter case ; and there will be much greater
difficulty, and therefore less chance of return-
ing the bowels into the cavity of the abdo-
men, in a case of crural, than in a case of in-
guinal hernia.
In the case of a strangulated hernia, it is
extremely difficult to name the moment when
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