The Cure of Rupture by Paraffin Injections

by Charles Conrad Miller

FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN DEALING WITH INGUINAL HERNIA.

The inguinal canal gives passage to the spermatic cord. It is an oblique canal extending from a point one-half an inch above the center of Poupart's ligament to the spine of the pubes. The cord emerging from the external ring continues into the scrotum, and the most definite manner of finding the external ring is by picking up the cord in the scrotum and following it with the index finger until the point of the index finger is pressed into the canal, the scrotum being invaginated at the same time. In scrotal hernia when the patient is placed in the recumbent posture the contents of the hernial sac may be pressed into the abdomen and the finger following the receding hernial contents will slip into the opening of the external ring.