Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / By B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1802
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    incifion, ligature, or fome equal violence; and frequently when neither a ftrangulation of the parts, nor any other circumftances, made it neceflary to refort to fuch inhuman and harfh methods of treatment. The mifchievous progrefs of thefe em¬ pirics, at length, became hurtful enough to require the interpofition of. the magi (Irate ; and, in fome places, their further evil prac¬ tices were thereby prevented. With regard to the prefent ftate of this branch of the Healing Art, when the praife which is owing to modern Surgeons, for the improvement they have made in it, is al¬ lowed, it muft alfo be obferved, that, pro¬ bably, it will yet admit of many ufeful ad¬ ditions. f The difcovery of the Formation of the Tunica Vaginalis hath led to the knowledge of a fpecies of this difeafe, which a late and celebrated writer fuppofed to be a Lufus Na¬ ture ; yet, from the uniformity of the natural courfe of things, it is not to be doubted that it