HERNIA 
contact, and one lip placed a little over the other. 
put round the child’s abdomen a linen belt, and laid upon the 
navel a.thick, circular, quilted part. 
“This bandage ‘the inteftine fecurely within the ab- 
démen, and was occafionally renewed. he funis was de- 
tached about a week after birth, and, at the expiration of a 
fortnight from that time, the-aperture at the navel was lo 
far contra@téd, that the crying of the child, when the bandage 
was removed, did not caufe the leaft protrufion. The ufe 
of the bandage, however, was continued a little longer. 
hen the quantity of protruded bowels is very great, not _ 
much hope of a cure can be indulged; but, im every in- 
ftance, it is the duty of the furgeon to reduce the parts, and 
do his utmoft for the infant's prefervation. Mr. Hey re- 
lates two cafes, in which he found enormous portions of the 
inteftinal canal thus protruded. Although he fucceeded in 
reducing. the vifcera, the children did not furvive the com- 
‘ 
ans 
plaint. 
Tn the fecond part of Mr. Aftley Cooper’s valuable work 
ia, we are informed that Dr. Hamilton has ufually 
applying a tight ligature round its bafe, brought the edges 
of the parictes of the abdomen together, by means of two 
Se es piece 
we have never had an opportunity of feeing this dif- 
e cannot offer any decided opinion upon the 
comparative merit of the two plans above de crib But 
navel. Their moft frequent fituation is in the courfe of the 
aptto give way. But, ventral ruptures are not confined to the 
hi 3 fometimes they happen in the linea femi-lunaris, 
moe 
the hernia happens in the linea alba, a foft and com- 
appearance at the middle of the 
forepart of the belly. Its fhape is in general oblong ; its 
various. When i 
: exc 
large fize, it might receive the appellation, fo much ufed by 
the French, of «€ eventration,’’ though this term 
paca ad aM referved for herniz. which depend upon a re- 
ation of a large portion of the anterior parietes of the 
abdomen, cafes where the greater part of the vifcera are 
fom 
n 
completely weakened (the effect of rei 
| toform a bag, which defcended over 
Vou. XVIL 
In this way, a 
q 
, and os pubis. 
terpofition a 
‘may bring on an elongation © 
Seat Thus, 
or a wid 
rurg. tom. iil. p. 405: 
‘The occurrence of what is ordinarily underftood by ven- 
ration. 
may often 
u 
. (See Cooper, part 
ife tra to be 
&c. 
The ventral herniz, occafionally obferved near the {cro- 
biculus cordis, have been called by the French herniz of the . 
omach, from an opinion thata pao of this or. 
contained inthem. They are ufuall 
> 
Suppofing the her- 
; be divided diretly upwards, A 
tet Fy (ae A haps of Cie 
than a difplacement of the bladder, Th offibilit 
complete difplacement mutt, indeed, be immediately 
on reflecting firmly this ed to the perineum 
na perfon fubje& to retehtions of urine, the 
much dilated, a, above the pubes, it ac- 
ral 18 
iresa fituation behind the 
bla 
q 
kind 
i 2 
2 mp 
ia to be fituated in the courfe of the linea alba, the ftricture 
minal ring, without any in- 
effort 
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