Progressive Medicine, Vol. 2

Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 2: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences; June, 1917 Hernias of the Urinary Bladder.1 Heineck,2 of Chicago, discusses at considerable length the hernias of the bladder. The author begins by stating that every surgeon is certain to meet with some instances of hernia of the bladder, and adds the opinion that the urinary bladder in part, or in its entirety, is present in 1 per cent. Of all hernias. While this statement may be true if it is limited to large, fully developed scrotal hernias in the male adult, I am sure it is not true if it refers to hernias in general, including hernia in children. Heineck states that many operators Without their knowledge have punctured, incised, ligated or removed a herniated bladder-process and then closed the hernial canal and operative Wound in the usual way. Bladder protrusions have been excised by mistake for hernial sacs, or stitches used to close hernial canals have been passed too deeply and found at the necropsy to have caught the bladder. Age. Apparently he found no cases in children, as shown by his table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.