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Anatomical Description of the Parts con-cerned in Inguinal and Femoral Hernia.Translated from the French of M. JULES

CLOQUET; with lithographic plates fromthe original etchings, and a few addi-tional explanatory notes. By A. M.M’WHINNIE, Assistant Teacher of Prac-tical Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s

Hospital. London: Highley, 1835

Royal 8vo, pp.50.THE nature of this work is sufHcientty ex-plained by the title. The original has for ,,

some time enjoyed that well-merited re-putation which the accuracy and clearnessof his anatomical productions have alwaysearned for the writings of M. Jules Clo-quet. The translation and lithographicplates are well executed, and English

surgeons will thank Mr. M’Wbinnie fo

presenting them, in so portable a form,with a minute description of the anatomyof hernia,-thus supplying, to a certain

extent, the place of Sir Astley Cooper’s

splendid but expensive work. A know-ledge of the operation for hernia is moredecidedly useful to surgeons than anyother, and its performance is by no meansdifhcult. It simply requires care, and anoccasional refreshment of the memory, themeans for which are well afforded in the

present work, when the emergency forreference arises.

The following measurements explainthe cause of the more frequent occurrenceof inguinal hernia in the male than in thefemale. They very nearly agree with thosepublished by Sir Astlev Cooper :-

M. Cloquet has examined the origin ofthe obturator artery in 250 subjects ; theresults, presented in a table, at page 40,are thus summed up by the author :-

" 1st. The cases in which the obturatortakes its origin from the hypogastric, are

the most numerous ; their proportion!when compared with those in which itarises from the epigastric or femoral, isnearly as three to one. 2ndly. Theobturator appears to arise more frequentlyfrom the hypogastric in the male than inthe female."

THE LANCET

London, Saturday, March 14, 1835.

TRANSLATION OF CLOQUET’S HERNIA.

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