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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ec By this easy operation, you will divide
the internal edge of the crural arch at its ex-
tremity, and, within sour or sive lines of its
duplicature, the remainder continuing firmly
attached by the inferior band, or pillar, of
which it is the continuation.
" This ximple inciiion being thus made,
without the smallest danger, the internal
border of the arch, which sorms the stran-
gulation, will be considerably relaxed, and
the parts will be reduced with the greatest
ease?"
How far the advice given in the firsl para-
graph of this extract, viz. laying open the iac,
siiould be followed, admits of doubt.
My father, in his treatise upon the bursae
mucosae, has publiflied the histories of four
cases, in which the bowels were returned into
the cavity of the abdomen, without opening
the iac, and, in all of these, the patients soon
got well f ; and I know of another in siance
in
* Vid. Appendix.