240 Biographical Sketch of Anthony Scarpa. 



on all kinds of animals, in which he was enabled to compare the 

 reciprocal value of the different modes of tying the arteries. 

 It cannot be too frequently noticed, that the name of Ander- 

 loni is intimately connected with that of Scarpa. The engrav- 

 ings which enrich the treatise on Aneurism will never be sur- 

 passed in beauty or perfection, and will with difficulty be equal- 

 led. These engravings, like those of all the other works of 

 Scarpa, are always faithfully copied after the designs of their 

 great master.^ * 



A new subject of meditation soon prepared him for a new 

 work. A disease of too common occurrence, the protruding of 

 a portion of the intestines from its natural position, and which 

 is known by the generic term Hernia, seemed to him worthy of 

 attention. The work which he shortly afterwards published on 

 this important subject procured the eulogiums and the gratitude 

 of all the academies and every great master of the art. This,^ 

 eminently classical work soon appeared in every European lan- 

 guage. •(• Every page exhibits the profound anatomist and the 

 able surgeon : not only has he thrown a light on the me- 

 chanism hitherto unknown or unexplained, by means of which 

 every hernia is produced, but he has also fully explained, 

 in every kind of descent, the dispositions of the ring of the 

 ^funiculus spermaticiis, the epigastric, crural and obturatrix ar- 

 teries. He has given excellent rules on the cutting of the ring,^ 

 and has wisely based his preference for the multiple cutting 

 on grounds which have been confirmed by experience. His 

 modern works on the cicatrisation and obliteration of the pre- 

 ternatural anus, consecutive on gangrenous hernia, are the 

 fruits and the complete result of his researches on the funnel- 

 shaped contraction of the peritoneal sac, and the changes suf- | 

 fered by the intestine inclosed in it. This work, which was .^ 



* SulV aTieurisma, ri/lessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-cJiirurgiche. Pavia, 

 1804. 



•^ Sulle Ernie, memorie anatomicO'Chh'urgicke. Due edizioni, la prima alia 

 stamperia reale a MilanOy nel 1809 ,• e la seconda in Pavia, 1819. Infol. max. 

 Shall I be forgiven for staling here, that Scarpa in his work mentions me 

 honourably, by making, in a few lines, an extract from a memoir which I have 

 published on the fatty Herniae rf the Unea alba. 



