A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia, on the outside of the sac / by C. Aston Key.

  • Key, C. Aston (Charles Aston), 1793-1849.
Date:
1833
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Credit: A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia, on the outside of the sac / by C. Aston Key. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. The operation of dividing the stricture of a hernia on the outside of the sac is not new: it has occasionally been per- formed, but at very distant intervals. From the defective state of pathological Anatomy, the steps of the operation have been so imperfectly detailed, that it has met with but few admirers, and still fewer imitators. More than a quarter of a century has elapsed since the publication of Sir Astley Cooper's discoveries in the anatomy of inguinal and femoral Hernia. Yet, not- withstanding this vast accession to our knowledge, the operation continues much the same as it was fifty years ago; while the records o£ surgery afford ample evi-