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Show 203 corrixo NECK or sac nor A sooner: or INFLAMMATION, proceeded from the admission of air. 0F "MORAL HERNIA' According to my reCOIe lection, in every case, the intestine adhered behind the ring in such a way as to preclude the passing of air into the belly (if it were possible that it could in the natural state of the bowels), CHAPTER 111, and to stop inflammation, if it were spreading, from the wound over the belly. I believe, then, that patients die after the operation for hernia in consequence of inflammation already . . . begun in the bowels prevrous to operation. 0F FEMORAL HERNIA. Wnonvea, says Mr. Pott, examines the tendon of the external oblique muscle, " will find that the part of it which runs obliquely down from the spine of the os ilium towards the symphysis of the os pubis, is tucked down, and folded inwards as it were." Any one looking to the dissected body, and recollecting this introductory sentence of Mr. Pott, will readiL" 'H nW """m' ‘f" ' l\\l\\\\"\‘ ‘1 . ‘ W :3; "7' 1y comprehend the whole truth, so as to anticipate the novel- ties of the present day. W However Mr. Pott and Mr. Hey may differ in words, I presume they must have meant the same thing in nature. The cord lies in a groove, or gutter-like canal, formed of the lower part of the abdominal tendon, which is inserted broad and horizontally into the os pubis, while it may be described as having two margins, one which is tucked down by the fascia of the thigh, the other internal, and the actual termination of the tendon. So far, then, it seems to me ridiculous in a late author, to claim the discovery of a new process or ligament. Accustomed to direct the knife of the student at a very early period of my life, I may, without much assurance, say, that the detail of this matter in my Dissections, page 111, is still the most accurate. I was writing What every one knew. But I thought The true anatomy is very distinctly represented in plate xiii. A, B, C, System of Dissections ; both in as much as regards the tucking down of the round edge of the tendon, by the fascia of the thigh, the broad insertion of the tendon into the os pubis, and the acute internal margin of the ligament. See again this ligament raised, in additional plates i. and ii. n .2 "0*. .r. , .' '1 r, , ' WON! ' , A' 1 M099"; ‘ |