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Title: A general system of surgery in three parts : Containing the doctrine and management, I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders. The whole illustrated with thirty eight copper-plates, exhibiting all the operations, instruments, bandages, and improvements, according to the modern and most approved practice : to which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery : with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Being a work of thirty years experience
Year: 1745 (1740s)
Authors: Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758 Mynde, J
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgical instruments and apparatus Bandages and bandaging Surgery General Surgery Bandages
Publisher: London : Printed for W. Innys in Pater-noster Row ... (and four others)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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Linea Alba, either above or below theNavel. Thefe Hernia are ufually diftinguifhed into true and Jpurious : Thetrue are thofe formed by a Prolapfion of the Inteftines or Omentum : The fpu-rious are thofe formed by other Bodies, as the Hydrocele, Sacocele, Varicocele, &c.We fhall firft confider the Hernia Ventralis, which has been either flighted orwholly neglected by the chirurgicalWriters of the laft Century; but as theDiforder is not only defcribed~ by the Ancients* but alfo frequently occurs inour own Time,, fome Inftances of which I have had myfelf, it will be agree-able to our Undertaking to confider it particularly in this Place. As to theirDifference,, fome are large, others fmall, and feated -either in the Middle or onthe right or left Side of the Abdomen : Some are eahly returned again intothe Abdomen, attended with no Inconvenience ; others cannot be returned, areattended with grievous Symptoms, and are therefore called incarcerated. 2 II. With tirt.ir.p.44. Tab.xxiv- \
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Sedl. V. 0//^ Hernia Ventralis. 45 II. With regard to the Caufes of thefe Diforders, there are two Opinions : Caufe.Dionis and others will have them proceed from a Rupture of the Peritoneum by fome violence, whereas Garengeot will have them to proceed not onlyfrom a Rupture of that Membrane, but more frequently from a Dilatation ofthe Peritonaeum, when it is not equally preffed by the abdominal Mufcles,.through a Wound, Relaxation, or other Defect, efpecially in the tranfverfeMufcles; fo that by the ftronger Action of the other Mufcles the Inteftines areforced, and the Peritonaeum dilated in that Part where there is the leaft iRefiftance. III. A Hernia Ventralis may be difcovered from the Tumor and Inequality Diagnosis,of the Integuments more in one Part than in another; the Tumor itfelf gives Way to the PreiTure of the Hand and returns into the Abdomen, but upon re-moving the Hand it returns again with a Sort of murmuring Noife •, when thePatient coughs, breathes deep, or ftrains,

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