Hernia : its etiology, symptoms and treatment / by W. McAdam Eccles.

  • Eccles, W. McAdam (William McAdam)
Date:
1900
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Credit: Hernia : its etiology, symptoms and treatment / by W. McAdam Eccles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    HERNIA: ITS ETIOLOGY, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. CHAPTER I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF HERNIA. A hernia is the protrusion of any viscus from the cavit}' within which it is normally contained. Thus, a portion of brain substance may pass through an opening in the bony cranium, constituting a hernia cerebri. Again, the testis m.ay fungate through the scrotal wall, producing a hernia, or fungus, testis ; the lung may transgress the confines of the thoracic cavity, causing a hernia of the lung ; or a muscle may escape from its sheath, giving rise to a hernia of muscular fibres. But the protrusion of an abdominal viscus from its position in the abdominal cavity is so decidedly more common than the extrusion of other viscera, that the term ' hernia,' even when employed without the qualifying adjective 'abdominal,' is generally meant to signify the protrusion of an abdominal viscus. The word 'rupture,' although no doubt used to denote protfusions through the abdominal wall, is open to the very serious objection that it implies—at any rate, in the lay mind—an altogether mistaken idea of the cause of the swelling. In the majority of cases a hernia is of gradual and slow formation, and this without any tearing or breaking of