An Operation for Femoral Hernia

Femoral hernia.

About 20 years ago one of us was so impressed by seeing a number of direct inguinal herniae following the Lotheissen (I898) repair of a femoral hernia that he decided to try the low or Lockwood type of repair. The low operation has been used almost exclusively since that time in over 500 cases. At that time and probably at the present time the Lotheissen operation is the most popular, because i...

An operation for hiatus hernia with short oesophagus.

Large Midline Ventral Hernia, Notes on an Operation for

I PROPOSE to submit for your approval or criticism an operation for large midline ventral hernia. I first performed the operation in January 1911, and have since shown cases at clinical meetings of this Society. Drawings of the steps of the operation were demonstrated at the British Medical Association Meeting in Aberdeen just before the outbreak of war. It may be advisable first to draw attent...

Femoral hernia repair.

Femoral hernia repair has a long history. In the nineteenth century, simple closure of the femoral orifice by the femoral approach was favored. Such renowned surgeons as Bassini, Marcy, and Cushing authored papers about the femoral approach to femoral hernia. The recurrence rate was so high, however, that it was replaced by the inguinal approach. The man who popularized the inguinal approach wa...

Strangulated Hernia Operation, and Subsequent Operation for the Radical Cure

Nazir, Mahomedan, aged 35 years, was admitted on the 20th April -with symptoms of strangulation of an inguinal hernia of the right side. It was of seven years' duration, and had been always reducible. He had never worn a truss, and on one occasion he seems to have been in peril from a temporary incarceration of the hernia. On the 19th of April it protruded when ho was talking, and he was unable...