WOOD'S OPERATION FOR RADICAL CURE OF SCROTAL HERNIA; COMPLETE CURE.

Radical Cure of Hernia (Wood's Operation.)

A Hindoo, aged about 40, came to the Azamgarh hospital on the 16th of July last, suffering from a large oblique inguinal hernia on the right side. The disease had existed for five years, and had come on gradually ; but latterly it had been increasing rapidly in size. On admission the tumour was somewhat larger than two fists, tympanitic to the touch, and reducible with the greatest ease. On pas...

Radical Cure of Hernia (Wood's Operation)

Towards the end of March last a young man presented himself at the Shahpur Dispensary, stating his willingness to submit to an operation for the cure of a right scrotal hernia. He was 23 years of age, well made, in good condition, in excellent spirits, and suffering from no affection besides the hernia. The hernia was of six years' duration, and was not very large, being about eight inches in i...

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...

A Case of Radical Cure of Irreducible Scrotal Hernia

years ago. He gave a history of two attacks of what appeared to me to be appendicitis, though the pain was all on the left side. The abdomen appeared rather small, but I thought it would contain the contents of the sac when reduced. I admitted him to my nursing home and gave him careful preparation for three days. On December 15th, I gave him an injection of i gr. morphia and hyoscine gr. ^ + a...

Radical Cure of Hernia