The London Medical Review, Volume 1Longman, 1808 |
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... ruptured or simply dilated ? Whether the sac was formed of this membrane , or of condensed cellular tissue ? And the appear- ance frequently observed of the testis and abdominal viscera in contact , although correctly explained in their ...
... ruptured or simply dilated ? Whether the sac was formed of this membrane , or of condensed cellular tissue ? And the appear- ance frequently observed of the testis and abdominal viscera in contact , although correctly explained in their ...
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... ruptured by the descent , still the origin of the fascia propria is certain , and a crural hernia can never exist without it . Having cleared the point of its formation , the following obser- vations we think forcibly enough exemplify ...
... ruptured by the descent , still the origin of the fascia propria is certain , and a crural hernia can never exist without it . Having cleared the point of its formation , the following obser- vations we think forcibly enough exemplify ...
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... rupture , in the latter it creeps slowly into notice by long and gradual distention . The perpendicular pressure employed to reduce crural hernia is a matter of more importance than is commonly imagined . The taxis is generally ...
... rupture , in the latter it creeps slowly into notice by long and gradual distention . The perpendicular pressure employed to reduce crural hernia is a matter of more importance than is commonly imagined . The taxis is generally ...
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... rupture of the superficial fascia , that ties together the absorbent glands . Second , the ex- tension of the sac , also entire or partial over the vein , and per- haps through the sheath , " so that the hernia turns before the vein ...
... rupture of the superficial fascia , that ties together the absorbent glands . Second , the ex- tension of the sac , also entire or partial over the vein , and per- haps through the sheath , " so that the hernia turns before the vein ...
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... ruptured . Another variety is the co - existence of two , or even of several distinct sacs . In small hernie , a steel spring truss , on the principle of the in- guinal , is found most efficient . Where the hole of the tendon is large ...
... ruptured . Another variety is the co - existence of two , or even of several distinct sacs . In small hernie , a steel spring truss , on the principle of the in- guinal , is found most efficient . Where the hole of the tendon is large ...
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Page 47 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 187 - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, &c.
Page 125 - It would appear that a stay for some months on the station, is almost essential for the production of the disease ; and that the greatest predisposition to it exists, when troops have been about eight or twelve months in the settlement.
Page 51 - Such, however, is, at the same time, the nature of the animal economy, that this debility proves an indirect stimulus to the sanguiferous system ; whence, by the intervention of the cold stage and spasm connected with it, the action of the heart and larger arteries is increased, and continues so till it has had the effect of restoring the energy of the brain, of extending this energy to the extreme vessels, of restoring, therefore, their action, and thereby especially overcoming the spasm affecting...
Page 403 - Remarks on the Frequency and Fatality of different Diseases, particularly on the progressive increase of Consumption, with Observations on the influence of the Seasons on Mortality.
Page 91 - Mineralogy with an account of the processes employed in many of the most important chemical manufactures, to which are added a description of chemical apparatus and various useful tables of weights and measures, chemical instruments, etc., etc.
Page 51 - The remote causes are certain sedative powers applied to the nervous system, which, diminishing the energy of the brain, thereby produce a debility in the whole of the functions, and particularly in the action of the extreme vessels.
Page 11 - When the hernia, therefore, enters the sheath, it pushes this fascia before it, so that the sac may be perfectly drawn from its inner side, and the fascia which covers it left distinct. The fascia which forms the crural sheath, and in which are placed the hole or holes for the absorbent vessels, is also protruded forwards, and is united with the other, so that the two become thus consolidated into one.
Page 92 - Treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease. To which is added, an inquiry, proving that the medicinal properties of the Digitalis, or Foxglove, are diametrically opposite to what they arc.