Eve reports three cases of gunshot wound in which the
balls lodged in the vertebral canal, two of the patients
recovering. He adds some remarks on the division of the spinal
cord without immediate death.
Ford mentions a gunshot wound of the spinal cord, the patient
living ten days; after death the ball was found in the ascending
aorta. Henley speaks of a mulatto of twenty-four who was stabbed
in the back with a knife. The blade entered the body of the 6th
dorsal vertebra, and was so firmly embedded that the patient
could be raised entirely clear of the bed by the knife alone. An
ultimate recovery ensued.
Although the word hernia can be construed to mean the protrusion
of any viscus from its natural cavity through normal or
artificial openings in the surrounding structures, the usual
meaning of the word is protrusion of the abdominal contents
through the parietes--what is commonly spoken of as rupture.
Hernia may be congenital or acquired, or may be single or
multiple--as many as five having been seen in one individual.
More than two-thirds of cases of rupture suffer from inguinal
hernia In the oblique form of inguinal hernia the abdominal
contents descend along the inguinal canal to the outer side of
the epigastric artery, and enter the scrotum in the male, and the
labium majus in the female.
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