Practical observations on the radical cure of inguinal hernia / by C. Holthouse.

  • Carsten Holthouse
Date:
1858
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Credit: Practical observations on the radical cure of inguinal hernia / by C. Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lieve to be the principal circumstances which either contribute to, or are likely to interfere with their success, it remains only to add, that the great mortality of persons affected with hernia, inde¬ pendent of the deaths arising from strangulation, is such as fully to justify the trial of any rational means which are calculated to reduce it; and my own opinions on this subject so entirely accord with those which have been so eloquently ex¬ pressed by Mr. Wells, that I cannot do better, in bringing this little treatise to a conclusion, than adopt his own words. 44 The relief of a strangulated hernia is justly regarded as one of the noblest triumphs of opera¬ tive surgery. The surgeon saves the life of the patient without removing or deforming any part of the body. But the surgeon who cures hernia ra¬ dically with certainty and safety, is a greater public benefactor, as he not only relieves large numbers of his fellow-creatures from suffering, and the in¬ convenience of wearing a truss, but he averts the danger of strangulation to which they are conti¬ nually exposed, in a greater or less degree, through every period of life.” X. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN.
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