The practice of surgery . -, these congenital hernise donot persist beyond infancy, and it is interesting to note that of adults. Fig. 104.—Anterior abdominal wall, viewed from behind, showing the peritonealfossae: A, Obliterated urachus: B, fold of deep epigastric artery-; C, obliteratedhypogastric arteries: D, fossa at the internal abdominal ring; E, fossa behind theexternal abdominal ring i Campbell, adapted from Sobotta). suffering from hernia, but 5 or 6 per cent, will be found to have con-genital hernise. This protrusion may occur after the person hasreached adult life, even though the d
The practice of surgery . -, these congenital hernise donot persist beyond infancy, and it is interesting to note that of adults. Fig. 104.—Anterior abdominal wall, viewed from behind, showing the peritonealfossae: A, Obliterated urachus: B, fold of deep epigastric artery-; C, obliteratedhypogastric arteries: D, fossa at the internal abdominal ring; E, fossa behind theexternal abdominal ring i Campbell, adapted from Sobotta). suffering from hernia, but 5 or 6 per cent, will be found to have con-genital hernise. This protrusion may occur after the person hasreached adult life, even though the defect has existed during all thepreceding years, but by far the greater number of congenital hernisedo occur in infancy or early childhood. When we speak of congeni-tal hernia, therefore, it does not indicate at what age such hernia mayhave developed, but does clearly mean that the hernia has come downinto a sac already formed.^ Congenital hernia seems to be hereditaryin many families, and to be found especially among the offspring of fee-ble and ill-nourished persons, as well as among rachitic, syphilitic, and1 W. B. De
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