The Problem of the Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Page 1 Symposium on Personal Preferences in
Surgery The Problem of the Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Richard N. Myers, MD,* and Edwin W …

" There is a peculiar quality of the human mind reminiscent of the rim of a wheel moving
slowly onward through deep sand which covers the segment of its circumference. For if one …

* In Table I, we have included under the term" direct", that mixed type often called" saddle-
bag" or" direct-indirect", because we believe that in these cases it is the" direct" weakness …

Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia is a frequently performed operation. Ideally, a hernia
should be permanently cured by one operation and its repair attended by minimum …

At a meeting of the Johns Hopkins Medical Society held on Nov. 4, 1889, Dr. Halsted
showed five patients operated on for inguinal hernia by a new method. 1 Dr. Halsted …

THE LITERATURE concerning inguinal hernia is voluminous, particularly that on
embryology, anatomy and operative procedure. There have been few long term statistical …

The Anatomy and Repair of Inguinal Hernias Page 1 Symposium on Surgery of Hernia The
Anatomy and Repair of Inguinal Hernias John L. Madden, MD,* Saeed Hakim, MD,** and …

J ust now most of the so-calledradical-cure operations are under a cloud. They have not
withstood the test of time. Modern text-books of surgery refer to operations for the radical …

THIS PAPER WAS BASED on consecutive herniorrhaphies operated upon by the author.
Our findings have supported Gillespie's12 and Chandler's5 contentions that observations in …

(Note.-General anaesthetic-of recent years chiefly ethylene was used. In forty-one
operations, local anesthesia.) We note that thegreat majority of operations are performed in …