CONCLUSION.
These cases represent the ten first which were seen subsequent to injection. Cases which were injected and which did not return subsequent to injection have not been included as they would be of no value in estimating as to the usefulness of this method. In no instance has an ill consequence been suffered which would cause the patient to seek surgical aid elsewhere, or at least no case has come to the knowledge of the author directly or indirectly.
Large hernia which have gone unreduced for years have not been treated by injection and discretion demands that for some time, or until injection treatments have been practiced upon many patients, that large ruptures which have been outside the abdomen for long periods be left to the surgeon or be injected only by practitioners capable of doing the cutting operation
in the advent of the failure of the injection treatment.
The author for his own part has felt no hesitancy in injecting cases which promised a fair degree of success, realizing full well that untoward symptoms of a local character may be overcome by free dissection, removal of the paraffin and restoration of the inguinal canal by the usual surgical means.
| CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| Foreword | [3] |
| Preparation of the skin | [10] |
| Preparation of the hands of the operator | [12] |
| Preparation of the syringe | [15] |
| Preparation of the paraffin | [18] |
| Posture of patient for injection | [23] |
| Skin infiltration to permit of insertion of long needlewithout undue pain | [25] |
| The effect of paraffin compounds upon the tissues | [27] |
| The immediate after effects of the paraffin injections | [30] |
| The precaution used to prevent throwing of paraffininto the circulation | [32] |
| Factors to be considered in dealing with inguinalhernia | [35] |
| Where the injection should be placed | [39] |
| The amount of paraffin to be introduced in a givencase | [42] |
| Technic to be used in injecting inguinal hernia | [44] |
| The injection of femoral hernia | [51] |
| Injection of umbilical hernia | [53] |
| Case reports | [59] |
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